You're right that sexism is involved, but you're entirely wrong about where it's occuring. Women almost never do this because our society is sexist about nudity. No one cares about male nudity unless the male in question is running for office. A nude picture of a man generally get a "boys will be boys" response and everyone forgetting about it shortly thereafter. A nude picture of a woman generally results in A: lots of males wanting to view it and B: lots of people calling the woman a slut or whore or something similar.
So even if both people in the relationship have nude pictures of each other the male is still in a position of strength. He can damage her reputation significantly by publishing them while she can't do the same to him.
"I'm sure the officers of many companies that make products I regularly use and enjoy are utter bastards, but there's no organized hate of THEM"
Uh, did you miss the whole thing with Chick-Fila last year? And i guess you weren't in California when the list of companies supporting Prop 8 was going around? (And i know the same kind of thing goes on with conservative groups on the other side of the aisle, but i try not to pay too much attention to that for the sake of my blood pressure.)
No one really cared that Chick-Fila was anti-gay until they actually started sponsoring the Pennsylvania Family Institute and similar groups, and even that wasn't enough to really get the ball rolling until the COO decided to get on the radio and start making public addresses about the issue.
And that's the key point. I'm sure there are plenty of authors i like who hold views i disagree with, but as long as they're not publically campaigning for those issues i'm not going to make an issue of it. The reason there is organized hate for OSC is that A: he decided to use his public blog to loudly espouse his political views, B: he donates money to and takes leadership positions in political organizations that promote those views, and C: the views he puts forth and supports are homophobic, racist, and in some cases just bat-shit insane.
Everyone is entitled to their beliefs, but you can't expect to _intentionally_ put yourself in the spotlight to cheerlead for those beliefs and not get any kind of reaction. He has the right to think whatever he wants, and he has the right to speak out about what he thinks. However the right of free speech doesn't give him some kind of magic immunity from responsibility for the things he chooses to say. If he cared more about selling books than promoting poltiical views he should have focused more on writing books rather than publishing editorials.
It's also notable that many people consider his early work to be his best and his current output to rather sub-par. One has to wonder what kind of correlation or causation there is between the two events (decrease in fictional writing quality and increase in political diatribes) but at least it means that those of us who choose not to buy his newer works aren't missing out on much.
And here's a counter-example. I happen to know that Terry Goodkind is an Objectivism loon. I know this because the later books in the Sword of Truth series turn into an Objectivist screed at certain points. I don't agree with his views, but aside from letting those views influence his writing i'm not aware of him doing any significant political campaigning. As such if the subject comes up i tell friends that the first couple books in that series are very good, but that later books suffer from sequlitis and political rants. I don't encourage people to boycott his books even though i disagree with his views and if they want to go buy the first book or two bassed on my assessment that's fine with me.
For those who care about such things, the story for Firefall was at least partially written by Orson Scott Card. For the record, i am planning on going to see Ender's Game because i want to encourage the production of more serious SF movies, but i'll be donating some amount of money to a pro-LGBT group to assuage my sense of guilt. However Firefall isn't really doing anything unique in the video game arena that would cause me to overcome my distaste for supporting projects OSC is involved with.
Looks like the LG Optimus G Pro is way too large. I've tried both the HTC One and Samsung Galaxy S4 in stores and they're also way too large. I can live without LTE for the Nexus 4, it's just the small storage and large screen size that aren't working for me. I have yet to see a phone with at least the specs of the Nexus 4 but more storage and a smaller screen, and your suggestions still aren't helping.
Given the propensity towards larger and larger phones i expect there won't be a 4.3" or smaller phone that matches those specs until the point where they're considered seriously out of date and just barely sufficient for a "cheap" phone.
It has everything that the Nexus 4 has except no NFC. There are others out there. The Nexus 4 is an old phone after all.
Uh, according to the specs on wikipedia, the Galaxy S2 has a dual core CPU, not quad core, only one of the two versions hits 1.5 GHz, neither of the two versions is 4.7" (not that being smaller is a bad thing in my book, but the GP did specify size,) it's only got 218 ppi at best, and all versions only have 1 GHz of RAM. The only areas specified where it _does_ match the Nexus 4 is the 8mp camera, NFC and Gorilla Glass. So you've failed to meet four or five of the eight specified points, and generally it's the rather more important points you've failed on.
And i'd definitely be interested in hearing some alternatives that match most of the Nexus 4 specs as well. If the Nexus 4 had a slightly smaller screen and 32 GB of storage or a microSD card slot i'd pick one up in an instant.
However along with other outward physical traits those are the genetic differences we can judge just by seeing, and if we assume that the rest of the genetics are fairly evenly distributed it's going to be a pretty significant bias. Without doing a genetic test i can make a reasonable argument that statistically my asian friends are more likely to be more genetically different from me than my white friends.
I suppose it's possible that this study is true and my genetic sixth sense has cleverly sorted my friends so the ones that look different on the outside are more similar on the inside, while the ones who look the same on the outside are much more different on the inside, but i'd definitely want to see some more studies and theories about the phenomenon before i'd believe that.
Do my asian friends not exist? Or am i not human? Or are asians and white people far more closely related on a genetic level than i've previously been led to believe?
Out of curiosity, i tried putting down my real name, an old address i used to live at, the real last 4 digits of my SSN, and an incorrect birth day.
It apparently thinks it knows a couple things about me. It thinks it knows how much i make (almost correct.) It thinks i own a couple kinds of credit cards that i don't think i own. It thinks i've made exactly one purchase using those credit cards in the last two years. It thinks that purchase was an online purchase for $80. Notably it can't figure out my political party even though you can easily find my donation records to a prominent political party if you do a search using my real name.
But impressively it does seem to have realized i used a false birthday! It reports my birthday as actually being on an entirely different and equally wrong day.
So either this system is brain dead, or there's someone else out there with the same name as me, who's lived in the same place as i did a couple years ago, has the same last 4 SSN digits, but was born several weeks after i was and makes 99% of their purchases with cash.
The NSA says they need to spy on us to protect us. The worst terrorist attack on Americans was of course 9/11, which killed about 3000 people. Let's suppose that the NSA is 100% right, and if they stop spying on us that another 9/11 will happen. Every single year. 3000 more people dead per year from terrorism every year.
3000 people out of approximately 300,000,000 million people is a 0.001% chance that i will die in any given attack. At one attack per year i can expect that by the time i would be 100, the odds of having been killed in a terrorist attack are 0.06%. I can live with those odds. Probably literally. A newborn baby will of course have slightly higher odds, a 0.1% chance to be killed by terrorism by the time they would reach 100. That seems like a fair risk to me in exchange for being free of domestic surveillance. (I don't have any kids myself but i do have a niece and nephew, so i do have some skin in the game.)
But you're right, outside of those of us who can do a little math and know how statistics work, no one would accept "let's get rid of the the PATRIOT act and domestic surveillance and scale back the TSA drastically."
I think the more fundamental problem is tribalism. There are people with strong beliefs who are kind and accepting of others. But a lot of people are happy to use religion and other "strong beliefs" as an excuse to indulge in ruthless "us vs them" mentality.
From the linked article: "Bottom line. Reusable airtight containers seem like a better way to save the world. FreshPaper helped in only one of our scenarios: Used with strawberries stored in their original containers and placed in the fridge, it staved off mold for at least two weeks, by which point those without FreshPaper had grown fuzzy. The countertop strawberries were quickly fuzzy whether they had FreshPaper or not; the airtight-container fruits were inedible (though mold-free) either way after three weeks."
Okay, i'm confused. It sounds like the FreshPaper is definitely not performing as well as advertised (shocker) but isn't complete snake oil.
However i'm not getting how a result of "inedible (though mold-free)" fruit is a win for air-tight containers. If the fruit is inedible (thought it would have been nice if they'd specified in what manner) then i don't really care if it has mold on it or not.
Congratulations on failing to read the question and failing to provide an answer! It's been awhile since i've seen such a succinct double fail! I am interested in the plain and simple "what if" of "what if the ice wasn't there, what would happen?" Which is why i specified "in theory" when i asked the question. I really have no interest in whatever personal boogeyman of science or politics or theology or whatever it is you're trying to derail the conversation with.
In theory, if all the ice on Greenland melted, how long would it take Greenland to spring back up again? I'm presuming it wouldn't be instantaneous or even noticeable to a human on Greenland at the time (well, aside from the earthquakes that would almost certainly accompany such an event,) but are we talking years, decades, centuries, or longer?
So now Google is doing press releases that make me look bad by causing my previous accusations to appear stupid and hyperbolic? That just proves that Google is out to get me! They're trying to discredit me so no one will believe me when i tell them that Google is the devil and is plotting to destroy the world!
Er, isn't bumper to bumper stop and go traffic one of the things autonomous cars would be best at? It's pretty easy to figure out what to do in that situation. Every car moving forward in unison at a stoplight won't happen until all the cars are automated, but the automated cars will certainly be able to accelerate just as quickly as a human when the car in front of them starts moving forward.
The reasonably legitimate concerns i've heard involve dealing with unexpected situations. You can see there's stopped traffic up ahead but the person in front of you isn't slowing down, you're on residential streets and a you see a ball bounce out between two parked cars and expect a child to follow shortly, etc.
Approximate odds of dying from occupational hazard as a tower worker in 2013 (so far): 10/10,000 = 0.001
Approximate odds of dying of terrorism as an American in 2001: 3000/300,000,000 = 0.00001
Screw OSHA involvement, we need to declare war on something right away and get the NSA spying on everyone in the telecommunications industry! (Okay, that last part may be redundant, but we need to find some way to give up some more freedoms to prove we're taking this seriously!)
I think it's fine if they want to force people to register and maybe jump through a few hoops so someone can't just create a new account and be flaming away ten seconds later, but i'm not a fan of the "real name" thing. I objected when Google tried to push the idea and i still don't like it now. Consistent identities and some kind of moderation system are enough to tame the worst abuses without trying to drag real names into it.
The one change i really want to get them to implement is the two tone colors in the row and column headers in the spreadsheet program. As it is the top half of the column headers and the left half of the row headers is light grey, while the other half of each is dark grey. That probably seems like a pretty trivial complaint, and maybe it's just me, but something about having half the area light and the other half dark plays havoc with my brain and makes it hard to read the labels, especially for the row headers where the line dividing the colors aligns with the numbers.
As a moderate user of spreadsheets this is the only thing that Excel handles better than OpenOffice/LibreOffice. Well okay, that and copy/pasting HTML content. Excel handles that just fine, but in OO/LO it hangs for awhile when i do the paste, and then if i undo the paste the text goes away but the formatting and images stick around forever. (This generally happens when trying to transfer tabular data from a webpage. Once it's in the spreadsheet i'll copy it again and do a Paste Special->Unformatted Text.)
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You're right that sexism is involved, but you're entirely wrong about where it's occuring. Women almost never do this because our society is sexist about nudity. No one cares about male nudity unless the male in question is running for office. A nude picture of a man generally get a "boys will be boys" response and everyone forgetting about it shortly thereafter. A nude picture of a woman generally results in A: lots of males wanting to view it and B: lots of people calling the woman a slut or whore or something similar.
So even if both people in the relationship have nude pictures of each other the male is still in a position of strength. He can damage her reputation significantly by publishing them while she can't do the same to him.
"I'm sure the officers of many companies that make products I regularly use and enjoy are utter bastards, but there's no organized hate of THEM"
Uh, did you miss the whole thing with Chick-Fila last year? And i guess you weren't in California when the list of companies supporting Prop 8 was going around? (And i know the same kind of thing goes on with conservative groups on the other side of the aisle, but i try not to pay too much attention to that for the sake of my blood pressure.)
No one really cared that Chick-Fila was anti-gay until they actually started sponsoring the Pennsylvania Family Institute and similar groups, and even that wasn't enough to really get the ball rolling until the COO decided to get on the radio and start making public addresses about the issue.
And that's the key point. I'm sure there are plenty of authors i like who hold views i disagree with, but as long as they're not publically campaigning for those issues i'm not going to make an issue of it. The reason there is organized hate for OSC is that A: he decided to use his public blog to loudly espouse his political views, B: he donates money to and takes leadership positions in political organizations that promote those views, and C: the views he puts forth and supports are homophobic, racist, and in some cases just bat-shit insane.
Everyone is entitled to their beliefs, but you can't expect to _intentionally_ put yourself in the spotlight to cheerlead for those beliefs and not get any kind of reaction. He has the right to think whatever he wants, and he has the right to speak out about what he thinks. However the right of free speech doesn't give him some kind of magic immunity from responsibility for the things he chooses to say. If he cared more about selling books than promoting poltiical views he should have focused more on writing books rather than publishing editorials.
It's also notable that many people consider his early work to be his best and his current output to rather sub-par. One has to wonder what kind of correlation or causation there is between the two events (decrease in fictional writing quality and increase in political diatribes) but at least it means that those of us who choose not to buy his newer works aren't missing out on much.
And here's a counter-example. I happen to know that Terry Goodkind is an Objectivism loon. I know this because the later books in the Sword of Truth series turn into an Objectivist screed at certain points. I don't agree with his views, but aside from letting those views influence his writing i'm not aware of him doing any significant political campaigning. As such if the subject comes up i tell friends that the first couple books in that series are very good, but that later books suffer from sequlitis and political rants. I don't encourage people to boycott his books even though i disagree with his views and if they want to go buy the first book or two bassed on my assessment that's fine with me.
For those who care about such things, the story for Firefall was at least partially written by Orson Scott Card. For the record, i am planning on going to see Ender's Game because i want to encourage the production of more serious SF movies, but i'll be donating some amount of money to a pro-LGBT group to assuage my sense of guilt. However Firefall isn't really doing anything unique in the video game arena that would cause me to overcome my distaste for supporting projects OSC is involved with.
Looks like the LG Optimus G Pro is way too large. I've tried both the HTC One and Samsung Galaxy S4 in stores and they're also way too large. I can live without LTE for the Nexus 4, it's just the small storage and large screen size that aren't working for me. I have yet to see a phone with at least the specs of the Nexus 4 but more storage and a smaller screen, and your suggestions still aren't helping.
Given the propensity towards larger and larger phones i expect there won't be a 4.3" or smaller phone that matches those specs until the point where they're considered seriously out of date and just barely sufficient for a "cheap" phone.
Samsung Galaxy S II
It has everything that the Nexus 4 has except no NFC. There are others out there. The Nexus 4 is an old phone after all.
Uh, according to the specs on wikipedia, the Galaxy S2 has a dual core CPU, not quad core, only one of the two versions hits 1.5 GHz, neither of the two versions is 4.7" (not that being smaller is a bad thing in my book, but the GP did specify size,) it's only got 218 ppi at best, and all versions only have 1 GHz of RAM. The only areas specified where it _does_ match the Nexus 4 is the 8mp camera, NFC and Gorilla Glass. So you've failed to meet four or five of the eight specified points, and generally it's the rather more important points you've failed on.
And i'd definitely be interested in hearing some alternatives that match most of the Nexus 4 specs as well. If the Nexus 4 had a slightly smaller screen and 32 GB of storage or a microSD card slot i'd pick one up in an instant.
Actually it's probably somewhere between 5% and 15%, depending on which study you go with.
However along with other outward physical traits those are the genetic differences we can judge just by seeing, and if we assume that the rest of the genetics are fairly evenly distributed it's going to be a pretty significant bias. Without doing a genetic test i can make a reasonable argument that statistically my asian friends are more likely to be more genetically different from me than my white friends.
I suppose it's possible that this study is true and my genetic sixth sense has cleverly sorted my friends so the ones that look different on the outside are more similar on the inside, while the ones who look the same on the outside are much more different on the inside, but i'd definitely want to see some more studies and theories about the phenomenon before i'd believe that.
Do my asian friends not exist? Or am i not human? Or are asians and white people far more closely related on a genetic level than i've previously been led to believe?
Out of curiosity, i tried putting down my real name, an old address i used to live at, the real last 4 digits of my SSN, and an incorrect birth day.
It apparently thinks it knows a couple things about me. It thinks it knows how much i make (almost correct.) It thinks i own a couple kinds of credit cards that i don't think i own. It thinks i've made exactly one purchase using those credit cards in the last two years. It thinks that purchase was an online purchase for $80. Notably it can't figure out my political party even though you can easily find my donation records to a prominent political party if you do a search using my real name.
But impressively it does seem to have realized i used a false birthday! It reports my birthday as actually being on an entirely different and equally wrong day.
So either this system is brain dead, or there's someone else out there with the same name as me, who's lived in the same place as i did a couple years ago, has the same last 4 SSN digits, but was born several weeks after i was and makes 99% of their purchases with cash.
The NSA says they need to spy on us to protect us. The worst terrorist attack on Americans was of course 9/11, which killed about 3000 people. Let's suppose that the NSA is 100% right, and if they stop spying on us that another 9/11 will happen. Every single year. 3000 more people dead per year from terrorism every year.
3000 people out of approximately 300,000,000 million people is a 0.001% chance that i will die in any given attack. At one attack per year i can expect that by the time i would be 100, the odds of having been killed in a terrorist attack are 0.06%. I can live with those odds. Probably literally. A newborn baby will of course have slightly higher odds, a 0.1% chance to be killed by terrorism by the time they would reach 100. That seems like a fair risk to me in exchange for being free of domestic surveillance. (I don't have any kids myself but i do have a niece and nephew, so i do have some skin in the game.)
But you're right, outside of those of us who can do a little math and know how statistics work, no one would accept "let's get rid of the the PATRIOT act and domestic surveillance and scale back the TSA drastically."
I think the more fundamental problem is tribalism. There are people with strong beliefs who are kind and accepting of others. But a lot of people are happy to use religion and other "strong beliefs" as an excuse to indulge in ruthless "us vs them" mentality.
From the linked article: "Bottom line. Reusable airtight containers seem like a better way to save the world. FreshPaper helped in only one of our scenarios: Used with strawberries stored in their original containers and placed in the fridge, it staved off mold for at least two weeks, by which point those without FreshPaper had grown fuzzy. The countertop strawberries were quickly fuzzy whether they had FreshPaper or not; the airtight-container fruits were inedible (though mold-free) either way after three weeks."
Okay, i'm confused. It sounds like the FreshPaper is definitely not performing as well as advertised (shocker) but isn't complete snake oil.
However i'm not getting how a result of "inedible (though mold-free)" fruit is a win for air-tight containers. If the fruit is inedible (thought it would have been nice if they'd specified in what manner) then i don't really care if it has mold on it or not.
Congratulations on failing to read the question and failing to provide an answer! It's been awhile since i've seen such a succinct double fail! I am interested in the plain and simple "what if" of "what if the ice wasn't there, what would happen?" Which is why i specified "in theory" when i asked the question. I really have no interest in whatever personal boogeyman of science or politics or theology or whatever it is you're trying to derail the conversation with.
In theory, if all the ice on Greenland melted, how long would it take Greenland to spring back up again? I'm presuming it wouldn't be instantaneous or even noticeable to a human on Greenland at the time (well, aside from the earthquakes that would almost certainly accompany such an event,) but are we talking years, decades, centuries, or longer?
"The miniature brain, roughly the size of a pea, is at the same level of development as that of a 9-week-old fetus."
Well that's not creepy at all! So how developed would they have to get before we start getting into serious ethical issues?
Wait, we've switched to doing boat analogies now? Why didn't i get the memo?!?
So let's see if i've got this right, a boat analogy is kind of like a car analogy, but without any wheels?
So now Google is doing press releases that make me look bad by causing my previous accusations to appear stupid and hyperbolic? That just proves that Google is out to get me! They're trying to discredit me so no one will believe me when i tell them that Google is the devil and is plotting to destroy the world!
Hmmm... spaghetti derivative... meatballs, sort of anyway... and... ooh, Kaldorf droppings! Who ate it before you did?
Judging from the comments above, it looks like it took them about -2 hours from the time you hit "submit."
Er, isn't bumper to bumper stop and go traffic one of the things autonomous cars would be best at? It's pretty easy to figure out what to do in that situation. Every car moving forward in unison at a stoplight won't happen until all the cars are automated, but the automated cars will certainly be able to accelerate just as quickly as a human when the car in front of them starts moving forward.
The reasonably legitimate concerns i've heard involve dealing with unexpected situations. You can see there's stopped traffic up ahead but the person in front of you isn't slowing down, you're on residential streets and a you see a ball bounce out between two parked cars and expect a child to follow shortly, etc.
Approximate odds of dying from occupational hazard as a tower worker in 2013 (so far): 10/10,000 = 0.001
Approximate odds of dying of terrorism as an American in 2001: 3000/300,000,000 = 0.00001
Screw OSHA involvement, we need to declare war on something right away and get the NSA spying on everyone in the telecommunications industry! (Okay, that last part may be redundant, but we need to find some way to give up some more freedoms to prove we're taking this seriously!)
I think it's fine if they want to force people to register and maybe jump through a few hoops so someone can't just create a new account and be flaming away ten seconds later, but i'm not a fan of the "real name" thing. I objected when Google tried to push the idea and i still don't like it now. Consistent identities and some kind of moderation system are enough to tame the worst abuses without trying to drag real names into it.
Well that is why they call it the tragedy of the commons.
(That saying _does_ refer to those lower class common people, right?)
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So really what you're saying is that no true Scotsman thinks that Scotland is the best?
:)
I'm not sure if that's double irony or triple irony
Ha ha ha, very funny. SyFy wouldn't do something like that.
Because you forgot to include sharks. Everything has to have sharks in it now.
The one change i really want to get them to implement is the two tone colors in the row and column headers in the spreadsheet program. As it is the top half of the column headers and the left half of the row headers is light grey, while the other half of each is dark grey. That probably seems like a pretty trivial complaint, and maybe it's just me, but something about having half the area light and the other half dark plays havoc with my brain and makes it hard to read the labels, especially for the row headers where the line dividing the colors aligns with the numbers.
As a moderate user of spreadsheets this is the only thing that Excel handles better than OpenOffice/LibreOffice. Well okay, that and copy/pasting HTML content. Excel handles that just fine, but in OO/LO it hangs for awhile when i do the paste, and then if i undo the paste the text goes away but the formatting and images stick around forever. (This generally happens when trying to transfer tabular data from a webpage. Once it's in the spreadsheet i'll copy it again and do a Paste Special->Unformatted Text.)