and so far it's all been from math wiz's from another country (India/China) who came here to get a CS degree but grew up in a country w/o easy access to PCs. When I went to college they were the only folks who didn't know a PC inside/out (though it was just the Chinese, there weren't a lot of Indians yet).
What I'm saying is it's not that the schools or the students are bad, it's that they have different backgrounds with odd (by our standards) upbringings.
wars have always been fought to take land from other civilizations because food was scarce. Food isn't really scarce anymore. Our food problems are now just distribution problems. We could end the need for arms greater than a few pistols for the occasional nut job tomorrow if we cared to. Of course, that would require us to give food/shelter to just about everybody without preconditions, and good luck with that.
somebody's pork barrel project. Especially from a State whose House Members and Senators fight against mine. Let's face it, once we could reliably launch satellites there wasn't much point to further space travel outside outside that. Maybe if their Congress Critters would stop trying to shut down Medicare & Medicaid (I've got buddies that depend on it to live) I'd be a little more charitable.
And yeah, the current climate has made me bitter as hell...
I'll give him this, he did have one really good idea: Market computers & gadgets as high end accessories similar to expensive handbags. But he was an all around asshole with a company built on exploiting people (largely Foxconn employees who get woken up at 3am to make minor changes to his designs). He was also a dick to pretty much everyone (the Wozniak stuff is just the most well known). It's not like this info is hard to come by either. 10 minutes on google looking up well sourced articles will tell you how awful he is. But to hear people tell it he's some kind of wonderful.
It's full of quirks like lense flares and red lines that we associate with movies because we grew up with them and expect them. If the next gen grows up without those quirks they'll find them strange and off-putting. Film's only an advantage for old folks.
they just don't talk about it because, well, it's awful. It's basically shutting down medicare, funneling the money into tax cuts for the.1% while slashing regulations that keep food, air and water safe and clean. You can't exactly get in front of national TV and talk about that stuff. Hell, he can't even claim he saved jobs. They gave Carrier $14 mil in tax breaks and the jobs are still on their way to Mexico.
Trump's core appeal is socialist style populism. The mistake Hilary and the Blue Dog Dems made was not listening to him. He promised Health Care for all, Jobs for all, education for all and a return to American greatness. Basically all the things Bernie was promising but without any specifics. But the fact is the majority of Americans _want_ the government to take a larger role in improving their lives. Trump played to that and the media played along and let him talk out of both sides of his mouth.
Make no mistake, the Dems lost because they tried to have their cake (big money donations) and eat it to (populist left). It didn't work. They had to keep their mouths shut about any left wing policies and just pray Trump imploded. He didn't.
the problem is Comey proved that even if you hand Trump victory on a platter he'll drop you like a bad habit at the first sign of trouble. I mean, Comey basically gave the election to Trump with that Oct surprise of his and Trump couldn't even understand that he had nothing to fear from him. Trump's dangerously unpredictable for all involved.
if they think they can get away with it. They'd love to have Pence. He's everything they want. They don't give a rat's behind about his religious agenda. They just want those sweet, sweet tax cuts for their wealthy donors, and end to all those burdensome regulations (like the one about dumping oil into streams and of course good 'ole Net Neutrality) and to keep wage growth down (again, for their big donors). And yes, that goes for most of the Dems too. God Damned blue dogs...
It's our country, not theirs. You do know that, right? It's not even that hard to do safely. Ban donations from organizations. Set a hard cap on private donations and then make it illegal to donate to a campaign you can't vote in. Book it, done. While I'm on the subject lets do away with the Senate/House and switch to a Euro style parliament system of proportional representation. This crap where 700k folks in Wisconsin decide the fate of 7 million Californians has got to stop. And if they Rural South doesn't like it, let 'em go.
because you break your computer a few times a year and it's expensive to fix it. Office 365 doesn't break unless your browser does. It works in 3 different browsers so if one breaks you can switch to another. And if all else fails you can switch computers and get to your files.
It's kinda like being a mechanic and driving a Jaguar. You can get away with it when you can fix it on your own.
you get application hosting. You get apps that work as long as your web browser does, and if your web browser breaks you can wipe the computer and start over and not lose a damn thing. Yes, you're giving up privacy and control, but most people don't need that or care. They care about losing everything when they crash their PC for the 10th time. They care about spending $1k on a PC instead of $200 because then need a fractional amount more reliability.
You and I are computer enthusiasts to some degree. Most people view them as a means to an end and a rather annoyingly complex tool.
is what makes Office so successful. It states that 80% of your users only use 20% of your application's functionality, but for each user it's a _slightly_ different 20%.
Basically, everybody has that one cool feature they can't live without that their entire workflow is dependent on (spacebar heating anyone?). That's how Microsoft gets lock in. You can't leave without taking a major hit.
it was still basically predictive analysis. The point is still valid regardless of how you're predicting the future. A psychic pre-cog saying you're going to commit a crime is functionally no different than the super computer's in Psycho Pass. It's just the author's preferred narrative convenience.
My point still stands. What happens to the narrative of personal responsibility in a world where the machinery of human beings has been solved. Where we know and understand every process down to the smallest level? Could you hold someone responsible for their actions when you can trace the exact path that led them to those actions? Especially for people clearly taking self destructive actions (petty criminals, drug users and the like)?
then there's not much too it. It's either inherited, a random defect or something caused by their environment. Environment here does not mean upbringing. I'm talking about the literal physical environment. e.g. like how there was widespread violence in the US because we used leaded Gasoline.
You do bring up a good point, which is that as tech improves we'll be able to spot people who are inherently predisposed to certain types of behavior. There's a nice big body of dystopian sci-fi on this subject too (Minority Report & Psycho Pass come to mind).
and the billions and billions of dollars of government subsidies that let him sell a luxury auto below cost along with investors willing to lose money for a long time on the off chance it all pans out.
it's their website. To be honest though you'd be hard pressed to find a religious text that didn't have something hateful in it. Most of those texts are thousands of years old and the world was a rough place for a long time (still is in most places). Anyway I don't expect Google to focus on a specific religious text, just the parts that either insight violence or scare off advertisers (let's not forget Youtube's biz model).
the extent of those consequences has traditionally been very tightly controlled by law. I can't, for example, fire someone for expressing their belief in Judaism. There's also tremendous protection for newspaper sources that all go out the window when it's on the internet.
if our political narratives will change. A popular narrative is folks can solve their problems through sheer force of will. Often not even very much. But more and more science is finding breakdowns in human anatomy are the cause of many behavioral problems. Think of those studies that showed rats in a healthy community didn't have addiction problems.
As we find more and more that people aren't inherently predisposed to behavior and that their environment and physicalities dictate their behavior much more than we've liked to acknowledge I wonder if we'll see a breakdown in the old notions of fault and the old "Pull Yourself Up by Your Bootstraps" mentality. Let's not forget that that phrase is, after all, a literal impossibility.
would go to a coding school? Coding schools churn out code monkeys. There's nothing wrong with that but there are damn few code monkey jobs to go around between outsourcing and H1-Bs. You're typically competing with kids rocking real degrees (e.g. a C.S. degree from a State University). You're better off saving your money and spending time on a git hub account.
I like paying taxes because I like the services my government provides me. I like civilization. What I don't like are regressive taxes that target the poor and working class so that the rich can have government services without actually paying for them. It's perfectly reasonable to expect that the folks who get the most benefit from civilization pay the most to maintain it.
Sheesh, the stuff that gets modded up on/. these days...
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and so far it's all been from math wiz's from another country (India/China) who came here to get a CS degree but grew up in a country w/o easy access to PCs. When I went to college they were the only folks who didn't know a PC inside/out (though it was just the Chinese, there weren't a lot of Indians yet).
What I'm saying is it's not that the schools or the students are bad, it's that they have different backgrounds with odd (by our standards) upbringings.
wars have always been fought to take land from other civilizations because food was scarce. Food isn't really scarce anymore. Our food problems are now just distribution problems. We could end the need for arms greater than a few pistols for the occasional nut job tomorrow if we cared to. Of course, that would require us to give food/shelter to just about everybody without preconditions, and good luck with that.
somebody's pork barrel project. Especially from a State whose House Members and Senators fight against mine. Let's face it, once we could reliably launch satellites there wasn't much point to further space travel outside outside that. Maybe if their Congress Critters would stop trying to shut down Medicare & Medicaid (I've got buddies that depend on it to live) I'd be a little more charitable.
And yeah, the current climate has made me bitter as hell...
they've got strong ties to a fairly oppressive government.
I'll give him this, he did have one really good idea: Market computers & gadgets as high end accessories similar to expensive handbags. But he was an all around asshole with a company built on exploiting people (largely Foxconn employees who get woken up at 3am to make minor changes to his designs). He was also a dick to pretty much everyone (the Wozniak stuff is just the most well known). It's not like this info is hard to come by either. 10 minutes on google looking up well sourced articles will tell you how awful he is. But to hear people tell it he's some kind of wonderful.
It's full of quirks like lense flares and red lines that we associate with movies because we grew up with them and expect them. If the next gen grows up without those quirks they'll find them strange and off-putting. Film's only an advantage for old folks.
they just don't talk about it because, well, it's awful. It's basically shutting down medicare, funneling the money into tax cuts for the .1% while slashing regulations that keep food, air and water safe and clean. You can't exactly get in front of national TV and talk about that stuff. Hell, he can't even claim he saved jobs. They gave Carrier $14 mil in tax breaks and the jobs are still on their way to Mexico.
Trump's core appeal is socialist style populism. The mistake Hilary and the Blue Dog Dems made was not listening to him. He promised Health Care for all, Jobs for all, education for all and a return to American greatness. Basically all the things Bernie was promising but without any specifics. But the fact is the majority of Americans _want_ the government to take a larger role in improving their lives. Trump played to that and the media played along and let him talk out of both sides of his mouth.
Make no mistake, the Dems lost because they tried to have their cake (big money donations) and eat it to (populist left). It didn't work. They had to keep their mouths shut about any left wing policies and just pray Trump imploded. He didn't.
there won't be a next Democratic president. Remember, the hardliners voted for him because they like Authoritarianism...
the problem is Comey proved that even if you hand Trump victory on a platter he'll drop you like a bad habit at the first sign of trouble. I mean, Comey basically gave the election to Trump with that Oct surprise of his and Trump couldn't even understand that he had nothing to fear from him. Trump's dangerously unpredictable for all involved.
if they think they can get away with it. They'd love to have Pence. He's everything they want. They don't give a rat's behind about his religious agenda. They just want those sweet, sweet tax cuts for their wealthy donors, and end to all those burdensome regulations (like the one about dumping oil into streams and of course good 'ole Net Neutrality) and to keep wage growth down (again, for their big donors). And yes, that goes for most of the Dems too. God Damned blue dogs...
It's our country, not theirs. You do know that, right? It's not even that hard to do safely. Ban donations from organizations. Set a hard cap on private donations and then make it illegal to donate to a campaign you can't vote in. Book it, done. While I'm on the subject lets do away with the Senate/House and switch to a Euro style parliament system of proportional representation. This crap where 700k folks in Wisconsin decide the fate of 7 million Californians has got to stop. And if they Rural South doesn't like it, let 'em go.
because you break your computer a few times a year and it's expensive to fix it. Office 365 doesn't break unless your browser does. It works in 3 different browsers so if one breaks you can switch to another. And if all else fails you can switch computers and get to your files.
It's kinda like being a mechanic and driving a Jaguar. You can get away with it when you can fix it on your own.
you get application hosting. You get apps that work as long as your web browser does, and if your web browser breaks you can wipe the computer and start over and not lose a damn thing. Yes, you're giving up privacy and control, but most people don't need that or care. They care about losing everything when they crash their PC for the 10th time. They care about spending $1k on a PC instead of $200 because then need a fractional amount more reliability.
You and I are computer enthusiasts to some degree. Most people view them as a means to an end and a rather annoyingly complex tool.
is what makes Office so successful. It states that 80% of your users only use 20% of your application's functionality, but for each user it's a _slightly_ different 20%.
Basically, everybody has that one cool feature they can't live without that their entire workflow is dependent on (spacebar heating anyone?). That's how Microsoft gets lock in. You can't leave without taking a major hit.
it was still basically predictive analysis. The point is still valid regardless of how you're predicting the future. A psychic pre-cog saying you're going to commit a crime is functionally no different than the super computer's in Psycho Pass. It's just the author's preferred narrative convenience.
My point still stands. What happens to the narrative of personal responsibility in a world where the machinery of human beings has been solved. Where we know and understand every process down to the smallest level? Could you hold someone responsible for their actions when you can trace the exact path that led them to those actions? Especially for people clearly taking self destructive actions (petty criminals, drug users and the like)?
then there's not much too it. It's either inherited, a random defect or something caused by their environment. Environment here does not mean upbringing. I'm talking about the literal physical environment. e.g. like how there was widespread violence in the US because we used leaded Gasoline.
You do bring up a good point, which is that as tech improves we'll be able to spot people who are inherently predisposed to certain types of behavior. There's a nice big body of dystopian sci-fi on this subject too (Minority Report & Psycho Pass come to mind).
move outside the reach of copyright and film film film.
and the billions and billions of dollars of government subsidies that let him sell a luxury auto below cost along with investors willing to lose money for a long time on the off chance it all pans out.
it's their website. To be honest though you'd be hard pressed to find a religious text that didn't have something hateful in it. Most of those texts are thousands of years old and the world was a rough place for a long time (still is in most places). Anyway I don't expect Google to focus on a specific religious text, just the parts that either insight violence or scare off advertisers (let's not forget Youtube's biz model).
the extent of those consequences has traditionally been very tightly controlled by law. I can't, for example, fire someone for expressing their belief in Judaism. There's also tremendous protection for newspaper sources that all go out the window when it's on the internet.
if our political narratives will change. A popular narrative is folks can solve their problems through sheer force of will. Often not even very much. But more and more science is finding breakdowns in human anatomy are the cause of many behavioral problems. Think of those studies that showed rats in a healthy community didn't have addiction problems.
As we find more and more that people aren't inherently predisposed to behavior and that their environment and physicalities dictate their behavior much more than we've liked to acknowledge I wonder if we'll see a breakdown in the old notions of fault and the old "Pull Yourself Up by Your Bootstraps" mentality. Let's not forget that that phrase is, after all, a literal impossibility.
would go to a coding school? Coding schools churn out code monkeys. There's nothing wrong with that but there are damn few code monkey jobs to go around between outsourcing and H1-Bs. You're typically competing with kids rocking real degrees (e.g. a C.S. degree from a State University). You're better off saving your money and spending time on a git hub account.
I like paying taxes because I like the services my government provides me. I like civilization. What I don't like are regressive taxes that target the poor and working class so that the rich can have government services without actually paying for them. It's perfectly reasonable to expect that the folks who get the most benefit from civilization pay the most to maintain it.
/. these days...
Sheesh, the stuff that gets modded up on
you've already stopped thinking critically...