Employers are held, at least in theory, to higher standards for making judgments relevant to hiring, promoting, firing, etc.
A nasty rumor, however, does not need to be substantiated (or even credible) to make life hell for you in your immediate surroundings (with your coworkers, neighbors, family, etc.)
Anonymous asshats griefing people on chat boards are capable of this kind of mischief to a higher degree than has previously been possible in human society. Eventually, we'll all come around to the enlightened opinion you're suggesting, but it's going to take a little time for society to catch up to the ramifications of the new technology.
"Asshat" is not a strong enough word for these people, nor is "Anonymous Coward."
Of course it's rather amusing when the truthless but verifyable (i.e. printed elsewhere) fact originated on WikiPedia itself, but it doesn't reflect a weakness in WikiPedia that you may interpret it to; this is the way that WikiPedia is meant to work
So, you're saying it's not a weakness that it promulgates falsehoods because that's the way it's meant to work?
Yes, but hasn't it already been proven that just because a site in one jurisdiction allows viewers from another jurisdiction they can't be charged because the other jurisdiction forbids the content thats legal in the first jurisdiction?
Theory predicts that that would cause a trans-jurisdictional warp anomaly, which could lead to a subpoena cascade. Very dangerous. But Data and I think that if we can reconfigure the deflector array to emit bogus affadavits in the "do-whatever-I-want"-band, the high-energy subpoenas will be completely neutralized. It would be like stuffing a mailbox with scrap paper!
Actually useful new senses include: 1. Timing 2. Proportion 3. Justice 4. When people are lying 5. Trouble (e.g., via scary background music) 6. Due Measure
"The actuality of a natural body capable of life that is supplied with organs, "actuality" here being used in the sense that is more like knowing something than like thinking about it." -- Aristotle
So what I'm saying is that rampant nerd rage is a good thing because people get stuff off their chest
This is commonly said. Unfortunately, it's not true. When people habitually get themselves angry, even if it's "only online and not IRL," they get habituated to being angry.
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Employers are held, at least in theory, to higher standards for making judgments relevant to hiring, promoting, firing, etc.
A nasty rumor, however, does not need to be substantiated (or even credible) to make life hell for you in your immediate surroundings (with your coworkers, neighbors, family, etc.)
Anonymous asshats griefing people on chat boards are capable of this kind of mischief to a higher degree than has previously been possible in human society. Eventually, we'll all come around to the enlightened opinion you're suggesting, but it's going to take a little time for society to catch up to the ramifications of the new technology.
"Asshat" is not a strong enough word for these people, nor is "Anonymous Coward."
Of course it's rather amusing when the truthless but verifyable (i.e. printed elsewhere) fact originated on WikiPedia itself, but it doesn't reflect a weakness in WikiPedia that you may interpret it to; this is the way that WikiPedia is meant to work
So, you're saying it's not a weakness that it promulgates falsehoods because that's the way it's meant to work?
Yes, but hasn't it already been proven that just because a site in one jurisdiction allows viewers from another jurisdiction they can't be charged because the other jurisdiction forbids the content thats legal in the first jurisdiction?
Theory predicts that that would cause a trans-jurisdictional warp anomaly, which could lead to a subpoena cascade. Very dangerous. But Data and I think that if we can reconfigure the deflector array to emit bogus affadavits in the "do-whatever-I-want"-band, the high-energy subpoenas will be completely neutralized. It would be like stuffing a mailbox with scrap paper!
Actually useful new senses include:
1. Timing
2. Proportion
3. Justice
4. When people are lying
5. Trouble (e.g., via scary background music)
6. Due Measure
Sensing bargains? Not so much.
Thinking. Try it.
A lever makes one man capable of lifting several tons by means of his own strength.
Where is the lever for the mind that makes thousands of brilliant technological advances out of a single man's half-baked brain fart?
Where is the force-multiplier for the mind?
Now, now. The Canadian government has apologized for Bryan Adams on several occasions.
Yes, Gary, you can go to the bathroom.
Good point.
True. But it's horrid across many platforms!
Yeah, I don't get this. They did Google Earth in Qt, IIRC. Why did they decide to switch away from that?
At least you're not calling it Fox Force Five.
Exactly! So, can we please stop using misleading phrases like "the gene for x"?
Its possible using some admittedly complex math, to strip out all but the core meaning of a document.
If this were possible, then the semantic web would already be here. But the semantic web is not already here. So this is not possible today.
I read "Court Nixes National-Security Leather-Gag Protection." Yikes!
You have erred. The only moral thing for you to do is to eat poop.
Can a customer ever rightly be denied access to a place of business?
To help students and faculty agree on the properness of university policies and programs is what student government is all about.
Really? I thought it was about giving the ambitious and meddlesome a chance to hone their people-annoying skills while padding their resumes.
"The actuality of a natural body capable of life that is supplied with organs, "actuality" here being used in the sense that is more like knowing something than like thinking about it." -- Aristotle
Pentagon Clears Flying-Car Project For Takeoff
Why not "Flying-Car Project Starts to Gain Real Traction at Pentagon"?
I thought it was the MCP.
Canadians Plan Robot Submissions To Aid Claim For Arctic.
Submissions? Those cruel Canuck bastards! How is humiliating robots going to help them claim the Arctic?!?
Your data is corrupt: only the current sig is ever shown.
I agree. What this calls for is a really stupid and futile gesture on somebody's part.
One could, for example--and I'm speaking purely hypothetically here--bust up a Starbucks.
So what I'm saying is that rampant nerd rage is a good thing because people get stuff off their chest
This is commonly said. Unfortunately, it's not true. When people habitually get themselves angry, even if it's "only online and not IRL," they get habituated to being angry.