Aren't you two full of jokes. I'm sure you'd be first in line to accuse americans of blatant cultural intolerance and bigotry.. look in the fucking mirror.
Nah, the liberals would whine that he shouldn't be driving a truck, operating an oven, deliver (nevermind drink) alcoholic beverages, or handle boxes without having to renew the proper (expensive) government licensing every year.
1. We do have a labor party: the democrats. They're just not borderline communists, though they're heading there bit by bit. Spare me the bit about america not having a 'true' leftwing party. The kind of soft socialism western europe has is rapidly hardening into the old soviet style. It's smothering their own progress too.
2. Someone has to pay for healthcare: a service rendered by these slaves you mentioned. It's not this free magic that would pour out of the ether if we'd only vote in more democrats. In fact, the costs wouldn't be so high if the government didn't subsidize so much of the industry in the first place. It's easy to spend other people's money when it's made available, and when there's a glut of money out there, the prices go up. That's why a routine operation is $50000, instead of a few hundred.
3. Profit motive is no better or worse than any other. They all boil down to the desire for control of one's property. The same could be said for 'labor' parties that want to consolidate all property and wealth under the government, to better consolidate their tyranny over the populations they rule. The 20th century is rife with examples of this behavior by so called 'heroes of the people.'
4. The public education system sucks, I agree. I went through it...via one of the supposedly better school systems. It was rife with easily-quantified yet skill bereft state testing, cult-worship of athletics and other non-essentials, and a disciplinary system modeled after state prisons. The last thing I'd want to do is give it, and the state, more money. They've made it quite clear they are incapable of accomplishing much of anything, even with that federal reserve-backed 'unlimited' budget we're all gonna have to pay for someday....with our backs. The libertarians have hated publicly funded anything because they knew what was coming down the pike: our current runaway debt. It's way too easy to spend other people's money and avoid responsibility. They also have a problem with public-funded organizations being used as propaganda dissemination machines by agenda driven parties and their lobbyists. Understandable, and I know neoconservatives do it too (fox, banks/federal reserve etc), but that doesn't give anyone a free pass on this. Using the schools to brainwash kids with stupid, blatantly biased, discriminatory half-truths like the black and womens history month programs, male-bashing in health classes, and forcing politically correct behavioral doctrines on them is unacceptable. School is supposed to function as a place to learn free-thought, with skillsets in logic and reason, and not as a slave-drone training camp (now with more ipads!).
6. The last thing I'd want is the UN here, 'liberating' us from our constitution or dictating to us what our rights are. This is exactly the kind of thing the founders warned against. The UN is basically a coalition of the world's most powerful states.. I highly doubt they have our long term interests at heart.
7. The media does lie, that is true. Guess which party they spend most of their time lying for (it isn't the neoconservatives, that's for sure). Why? Well, where do you think most of these communications majors spent their formative years, where they are taught how to "make a difference" instead of how to investigate and then objectively report what they see? It certainly wasn't bob jones university.
8. Wealth inequity is an expression of nature, where nothing is 'equal'. Some of us are more capable, others less so. While an ethical argument could be made for helping those at the bottom, humanity cannot function in a state of total equality. We are not square pegs meant for square holes. You complain about being a wage slave, yet you support this? Have you thought it through all the way? Do you not see how one will cause the other? let the corp-rats win, and we all live equally poorly in wage-slave corporate housing. Let the government win, and we all live equally poorly in government housing. What a choice, eh?
No, it would be communism if the nouveau project decreed that you couldn't run competing software (like nvidia's binary) and had the authority to enforce it. After all, it was developed by 'The People', and you will use and like it. Thankfully this is not the case. It's just too bad nvidia is removing functionality for idiotic reasons.
Unfortunately, this will get harder to do as subsequent generations are raised with thinner and thinner skin. The current legal landscape in the USA, completely byzantine and out of control, needs to be fixed, for sure, but the other part of the solution requires us to quit raising generations of pantywaists. Politics that encourage victimhood groupthink mentalities are a large part of the blame here.
Your entire post is an argument from authority. If you want to support his position, do it with facts and reason, not an appeal to his titles and experience.
Macromanagement. This is its own form of hell too. This is the "I don't care, just make it work" mentality that simultaneously denies its underlings the things they need to make it happen.
The hypothesis is that popsci doesn't like criticism of its articles because it affects the publication's bottom line and/or the ego of its editors and staff. Even without data, it's a pretty reasonable default assumption because it is a well known fact that humans always act in their self interest, even under the guise of philanthropy. It is also well known that most humans, especially otherwise intelligent and successful ones, abhor criticism. The few who don't, who can filter useful data out of it while keeping their emotions at bay, are the ones with the potential to be successful scientists.
The grand parent post is right. There is a lot of emotional fervor for certain positions in just about every discipline, especially for the heavily politicized ones (eg climatology). The critical factor here is that while these convictions are often held for the position supported by the most facts, the emotional satisfaction coming from being on the 'right' side causes the group to make logical errors as work progresses. Perhaps emotional control skillsets should be part of every science curriculum to help minimize this.
As much as I hate government waste, I think the USDA does serve needed purposes, like preventing toxins being passed as food on the open market...more or less. If you think the situation with processed foods is bad now, without it, we wouldn't even know what we put in our mouths because it is what mandated ingredients lists in the first place, as well as (somewhat) dealing with standards for GMO food. Of course, you're right, it suffers from the same problems other government agencies suffer from, including budget inflation and ethical integrity (lobbying). It's basically been bought out by quality companies like monsanto. This complete lack of ethics on the part of politicians is what makes growing the size of government pure idiocy: it gives companies monsanto et al power above and beyond what they'd naturally get over citizens/customers in the market.
Bottom line though: if the feds need trillions of dollars in loans a year to operate, they're doing it wrong.
Oh, I almost forgot about all those crocodile tears cried for the sake of making some demographics 'more equal' than others. After all, SOMEONE has to keep us divided so that we stay willing to vote in the next tyrant. Identity politics on the left vs corporate welfare on the right make the United States a free and prosperous nation!
No. DC has been a bad investment for decades now.. The only people they seem to pay off for are the fortune 100, with the rest of us picking up the tab. Talk about a rip off.
Not if the healthcare focuses on patching symptoms instead of curing disease, and not if the education mostly brainwashes the students into obedient drones.
Yes..people will always leverage what they have for maximum benefit.. at least in free countries, they can't then use the government (or the taxpayers' own money) as a weapon in that process.
Nah, the butthurt assholes are the ones crying over linus' use of 'fuck you' in place of passive aggressive, stuffy language. Most linux users are a lot more hardened than that.
The term 'different' is not the same as 'bad'. The new trek movies' plots aren't even internally consistent, nevermind consistent with the old canon (your assumption). Take out the character names, and the ship design for the starfleet ships, and suddenly you've got a mundane action flick with lots of shakycam, skydiving, and lense flares.
Quit the shaming language and look at the movies objectively. They're terrible.
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NO no.. there are 30 rounds in the magazine AND one in the chamber!
Aren't you two full of jokes. I'm sure you'd be first in line to accuse americans of blatant cultural intolerance and bigotry.. look in the fucking mirror.
Nah, the liberals would whine that he shouldn't be driving a truck, operating an oven, deliver (nevermind drink) alcoholic beverages, or handle boxes without having to renew the proper (expensive) government licensing every year.
1. We do have a labor party: the democrats. They're just not borderline communists, though they're heading there bit by bit. Spare me the bit about america not having a 'true' leftwing party. The kind of soft socialism western europe has is rapidly hardening into the old soviet style. It's smothering their own progress too.
2. Someone has to pay for healthcare: a service rendered by these slaves you mentioned. It's not this free magic that would pour out of the ether if we'd only vote in more democrats. In fact, the costs wouldn't be so high if the government didn't subsidize so much of the industry in the first place. It's easy to spend other people's money when it's made available, and when there's a glut of money out there, the prices go up. That's why a routine operation is $50000, instead of a few hundred.
3. Profit motive is no better or worse than any other. They all boil down to the desire for control of one's property. The same could be said for 'labor' parties that want to consolidate all property and wealth under the government, to better consolidate their tyranny over the populations they rule. The 20th century is rife with examples of this behavior by so called 'heroes of the people.'
4. The public education system sucks, I agree. I went through it...via one of the supposedly better school systems. It was rife with easily-quantified yet skill bereft state testing, cult-worship of athletics and other non-essentials, and a disciplinary system modeled after state prisons. The last thing I'd want to do is give it, and the state, more money. They've made it quite clear they are incapable of accomplishing much of anything, even with that federal reserve-backed 'unlimited' budget we're all gonna have to pay for someday....with our backs. The libertarians have hated publicly funded anything because they knew what was coming down the pike: our current runaway debt. It's way too easy to spend other people's money and avoid responsibility. They also have a problem with public-funded organizations being used as propaganda dissemination machines by agenda driven parties and their lobbyists. Understandable, and I know neoconservatives do it too (fox, banks/federal reserve etc), but that doesn't give anyone a free pass on this. Using the schools to brainwash kids with stupid, blatantly biased, discriminatory half-truths like the black and womens history month programs, male-bashing in health classes, and forcing politically correct behavioral doctrines on them is unacceptable. School is supposed to function as a place to learn free-thought, with skillsets in logic and reason, and not as a slave-drone training camp (now with more ipads!).
6. The last thing I'd want is the UN here, 'liberating' us from our constitution or dictating to us what our rights are. This is exactly the kind of thing the founders warned against. The UN is basically a coalition of the world's most powerful states.. I highly doubt they have our long term interests at heart.
7. The media does lie, that is true. Guess which party they spend most of their time lying for (it isn't the neoconservatives, that's for sure). Why? Well, where do you think most of these communications majors spent their formative years, where they are taught how to "make a difference" instead of how to investigate and then objectively report what they see? It certainly wasn't bob jones university.
8. Wealth inequity is an expression of nature, where nothing is 'equal'. Some of us are more capable, others less so. While an ethical argument could be made for helping those at the bottom, humanity cannot function in a state of total equality. We are not square pegs meant for square holes. You complain about being a wage slave, yet you support this? Have you thought it through all the way? Do you not see how one will cause the other? let the corp-rats win, and we all live equally poorly in wage-slave corporate housing. Let the government win, and we all live equally poorly in government housing. What a choice, eh?
Both companies have done things that help and hinder open software.
No. slashdot properly lambasted amd for removing a feature that was there, and worked, for many years. Same thing with nvidia.
No, it would be communism if the nouveau project decreed that you couldn't run competing software (like nvidia's binary) and had the authority to enforce it. After all, it was developed by 'The People', and you will use and like it. Thankfully this is not the case. It's just too bad nvidia is removing functionality for idiotic reasons.
It's people with attitudes like yours that ensure the tyrants you speak of stay in power indefinitely.
Unfortunately, this will get harder to do as subsequent generations are raised with thinner and thinner skin. The current legal landscape in the USA, completely byzantine and out of control, needs to be fixed, for sure, but the other part of the solution requires us to quit raising generations of pantywaists. Politics that encourage victimhood groupthink mentalities are a large part of the blame here.
Your entire post is an argument from authority. If you want to support his position, do it with facts and reason, not an appeal to his titles and experience.
Macromanagement. This is its own form of hell too. This is the "I don't care, just make it work" mentality that simultaneously denies its underlings the things they need to make it happen.
The guy's dead.. the distortion field's gone.. why are you still acting this way?
Except when use is counted as distribution, eg: "making copies from disk to ram, from ram to display device" counting as 'copying.'
You don't solve the problem by squelching all discourse and then giving certain people the right to 'broadcast', unchallenged, based on title alone.
The hypothesis is that popsci doesn't like criticism of its articles because it affects the publication's bottom line and/or the ego of its editors and staff. Even without data, it's a pretty reasonable default assumption because it is a well known fact that humans always act in their self interest, even under the guise of philanthropy. It is also well known that most humans, especially otherwise intelligent and successful ones, abhor criticism. The few who don't, who can filter useful data out of it while keeping their emotions at bay, are the ones with the potential to be successful scientists.
The grand parent post is right. There is a lot of emotional fervor for certain positions in just about every discipline, especially for the heavily politicized ones (eg climatology). The critical factor here is that while these convictions are often held for the position supported by the most facts, the emotional satisfaction coming from being on the 'right' side causes the group to make logical errors as work progresses. Perhaps emotional control skillsets should be part of every science curriculum to help minimize this.
As much as I hate government waste, I think the USDA does serve needed purposes, like preventing toxins being passed as food on the open market...more or less. If you think the situation with processed foods is bad now, without it, we wouldn't even know what we put in our mouths because it is what mandated ingredients lists in the first place, as well as (somewhat) dealing with standards for GMO food. Of course, you're right, it suffers from the same problems other government agencies suffer from, including budget inflation and ethical integrity (lobbying). It's basically been bought out by quality companies like monsanto. This complete lack of ethics on the part of politicians is what makes growing the size of government pure idiocy: it gives companies monsanto et al power above and beyond what they'd naturally get over citizens/customers in the market.
Bottom line though: if the feds need trillions of dollars in loans a year to operate, they're doing it wrong.
Oh, I almost forgot about all those crocodile tears cried for the sake of making some demographics 'more equal' than others. After all, SOMEONE has to keep us divided so that we stay willing to vote in the next tyrant. Identity politics on the left vs corporate welfare on the right make the United States a free and prosperous nation!
No. DC has been a bad investment for decades now.. The only people they seem to pay off for are the fortune 100, with the rest of us picking up the tab. Talk about a rip off.
Not if the healthcare focuses on patching symptoms instead of curing disease, and not if the education mostly brainwashes the students into obedient drones.
Yes..people will always leverage what they have for maximum benefit.. at least in free countries, they can't then use the government (or the taxpayers' own money) as a weapon in that process.
Nah, the butthurt assholes are the ones crying over linus' use of 'fuck you' in place of passive aggressive, stuffy language. Most linux users are a lot more hardened than that.
Well, any sane WM would use X11's software blitter if there's no hw acceleration available.
No, I meant relatively.
The term 'different' is not the same as 'bad'. The new trek movies' plots aren't even internally consistent, nevermind consistent with the old canon (your assumption). Take out the character names, and the ship design for the starfleet ships, and suddenly you've got a mundane action flick with lots of shakycam, skydiving, and lense flares.
Quit the shaming language and look at the movies objectively. They're terrible.
It also wasn't startrek. It was, well, a generic action flick with no particular consistency with itself, nevermind the old canon.
this does a decent job describing a lot of it.
http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/inconsistencies/inconsistencies-trekxi.htm
In fact, all they'd have to do is tweak a few things and it would be a great star trek parody. As far as 'serious' scifi goes, it's awful.