you can thank the feminists for that rigid definition.. oh wait, they're expanding the definition every day.. if they could, they'd make male glances considered rape. The people who run the political groups like this (of which feminism is only one) are highly insecure and are willing to sell out their (and our) liberties to the state in order to get the social control they crave.
sure.. ideologues do not tolerate questioning of their axioms. That "challenging fixed beliefs" part is clearly a nod to religious belief.
It could very well be that the GOP would not want such things taught as it prefers societal conformance to a rigid command hierarchy (religion and the state(neo-patriotism)), which contrasts the leftist demands for rigid adherence to group consensus and deference to an assumed benevolent state. While both ideologies start from different points, they diverge towards similar conclusions/solutions in order to get maximum compliance. It's too bad the proponents from both sides miss the fact they're burning the village (liberty,finance,sovereignty et al) in order to save it.
and your argument against his is ad hominem fallacy. disagreement does not mean one is a 'hater.' this typical response is the left's counterpart to right wing religious zealotry.
Murder is 100% wrong? Not when it's in self defense, and not when the state mandates capital punishment. When the state calls it war, then it's ok to kill millions. Some call that mass-murder. Others call it survival or patriotism. I'm not saying I agree or disagree with any of this, I just meant that people who complain about morality are often the ones that use it as black&white first-causes to justify things beneficial to them or their societal cross-section. Basically, they attempt to make their detractors feel guilty for disagreeing which is fallacious. The left is just as guilty of this as the right, eg: feminism/NAACP/gays and other 'social justice' groups that are/have (or begun to) cross the line between equity and entitlement. The right does it with religion, mainly, but it also shows up in patriotic drumbeating.
Get your head out of your ass. I'm not a leftist by any means.
in today's culture, manners and feelings and consensus matter more than correctness, assertiveness, and the facts.. who cares if he's rude so long as he's right.. get a thicker hide..
sorry but concepts like good and evil are subjective.. what you should watch out for are people who start throwing those terms around as justification for action. there are plenty of these across the spectrum.
he doesn't mean that "higher order thinking skills" are bullshit.. he said that the terms "higher order thinking skills" "logic" "critical thinking" and others have been coopted by the left as compliance with their ideology. largely, he's correct, but the neocon right does this too in their institutions. it's too bad really.. having real, age appropriate logic and critical thinking skills classes in every grade would go a long way to fix the problems we have. they would give a higher level bullshit filter to every citizen for use in detecting propaganda.
then those people either don't use computers for important things in their lives, or they're ignorant of the underlying risks of dependence on remote services and just haven't been burned yet. I would never want my business dependent on 'web services' for middleware applications like office suites and other productivity programs because connectivity failure now means NO business gets done at all, instead of a minor inconvenience. overcentralization of dependencies will be this society's undoing I think..
don't you worry.. when thick clients aren't ubiquitous anymore, they'll rise back up to $5000 for the stripped down model..after all who needs them but 'professionals'? you're a consumer? pff suck it up and buy your iThingy that's all you need.. no learning programming for you unless you want to pay for that 'professional' access to proper hardware.
if this day comes, I will strip computing from my life.
um errr.. thin clients are about lockin too.. the whole thing is dependent on ASPs and ISPs to function. if we switch entirely to thin clients, they'll have us over a barrel. users will be powerless to stonewall unwanted change/price hikes/unavailability of the applications they depend on. if that's where computing ends up, I will remove as much of it from my life as possible.
I make it a rule to treat web sites (I refuse to call them 'apps') as last tier tools. I treat them as occasional conveniences and never part of mission critical work because it could disappear/become more expensive, or otherwise change tomorrow in ways that are detrimental to what I'm doing. tier 1 tools consist of locally stored and executed software that allows indefinite use.
well if the money isn't there to produce anything interesting, why should I watch? I do know that as the dollar depreciates, things have been getting worse. this isn't limited to entertainment of course...
um.. wow. your post reads like someone defending a lost child from a predator. maybe you are afraid your life would be empty without it.. that's sad.
1. the interface of tv is archiac.. these days, all tv programs should be available on demand, esp for the price demanded by providers. I shouldn't have to bother with 'recording' a stream at certain times, or putting up with commercials at these prices.
2. reruns - can be entertaining at times, but really, this feeds into #1..reruns are an anachronism.
3. watching film directors and actors talk about themselves is decidedly NOT interesting...it's even less interesting than watching them act in the tiring repetitious soap opera/sitcom/drama and now 'reality tv' formats over and over and over.
4. foreign channels are usually in languages I don't know well...and really, what are they saying that's much different? I'm sure the politics differ in that they speak things that will benefit their towns/states/countries, just like foxnews and cnn do for the US. Big deal, no surprise. otherwise, they're human beings with the same base desires, making their sitcoms/soaps/dramas and reality tv formats similar.. any differences do not make or break tv for me. the format is just tired.
5. you're telling me to widen my horizons? there's more to life than television..widen yours. if being modern means I have to like the dreck passing off as entertainment, then I guess I'm not modern. oh well.
you're only looking untrustworthy because the others know about everything. if you can choose what they know about you, then you have a chance to prove their would-be assumptions wrong before they have them.
hahahah. what's so great about it? the stories about who is cheating on who? (vampires optional) the unfunny sitcoms that actually need laughtracks for the punchlines? wondering who's the best singer of shitty pop songs? wondering if the make believe singer in the make believe highschool is gay? the useless out of context sound bytes on the news? whether this old house is haunted? who's happier with whose wife? watching grandma 'jwow' saying she'll tell her grandkids she made pizza in italy? watching pregnant 16yos mutual idiocy? the 2352354623 girl-power/two minutes man-hate moments per second? watching cars go around in a circle 500 times? watching people throw/kick/hit balls? wrestling? watching shows about pyramids/stonehenge being docks/portals/messages to aliens? watching morgan freeman dumb theoretical astrophysics down to kindergarteners? the cop shows that make us sympathize with the criminals because the preachy cops remind us just how much our justice system sucks? commercials so annoying they make us make mental notes to NOT buy whatever is being pitched...every 2 minutes...and the $200 a month for 1500 channels of this shit. to quote AVGN: "AAAAAAAYYSSSSSSSS"
and if you move the mouse while the video's playing and it happens to touch another window half behind it, it'll cover the video as it becomes active.. that would be annoying.
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you can thank the feminists for that rigid definition.. oh wait, they're expanding the definition every day.. if they could, they'd make male glances considered rape. The people who run the political groups like this (of which feminism is only one) are highly insecure and are willing to sell out their (and our) liberties to the state in order to get the social control they crave.
sure.. ideologues do not tolerate questioning of their axioms. That "challenging fixed beliefs" part is clearly a nod to religious belief.
It could very well be that the GOP would not want such things taught as it prefers societal conformance to a rigid command hierarchy (religion and the state(neo-patriotism)), which contrasts the leftist demands for rigid adherence to group consensus and deference to an assumed benevolent state. While both ideologies start from different points, they diverge towards similar conclusions/solutions in order to get maximum compliance. It's too bad the proponents from both sides miss the fact they're burning the village (liberty,finance,sovereignty et al) in order to save it.
and your argument against his is ad hominem fallacy. disagreement does not mean one is a 'hater.' this typical response is the left's counterpart to right wing religious zealotry.
Murder is 100% wrong? Not when it's in self defense, and not when the state mandates capital punishment. When the state calls it war, then it's ok to kill millions. Some call that mass-murder. Others call it survival or patriotism. I'm not saying I agree or disagree with any of this, I just meant that people who complain about morality are often the ones that use it as black&white first-causes to justify things beneficial to them or their societal cross-section. Basically, they attempt to make their detractors feel guilty for disagreeing which is fallacious. The left is just as guilty of this as the right, eg: feminism/NAACP/gays and other 'social justice' groups that are/have (or begun to) cross the line between equity and entitlement. The right does it with religion, mainly, but it also shows up in patriotic drumbeating.
Get your head out of your ass. I'm not a leftist by any means.
Just because you don't know how to retool a lock doesn't mean you should hand the keys over to the state.
Ideally we shouldn't support companies who do this even if their hardware is reflashable.
NAZI = german acronym for national socialist..
in today's culture, manners and feelings and consensus matter more than correctness, assertiveness, and the facts.. who cares if he's rude so long as he's right.. get a thicker hide..
sorry but concepts like good and evil are subjective.. what you should watch out for are people who start throwing those terms around as justification for action. there are plenty of these across the spectrum.
he doesn't mean that "higher order thinking skills" are bullshit.. he said that the terms "higher order thinking skills" "logic" "critical thinking" and others have been coopted by the left as compliance with their ideology. largely, he's correct, but the neocon right does this too in their institutions. it's too bad really.. having real, age appropriate logic and critical thinking skills classes in every grade would go a long way to fix the problems we have. they would give a higher level bullshit filter to every citizen for use in detecting propaganda.
downtime isn't.
then those people either don't use computers for important things in their lives, or they're ignorant of the underlying risks of dependence on remote services and just haven't been burned yet. I would never want my business dependent on 'web services' for middleware applications like office suites and other productivity programs because connectivity failure now means NO business gets done at all, instead of a minor inconvenience. overcentralization of dependencies will be this society's undoing I think..
don't you worry.. when thick clients aren't ubiquitous anymore, they'll rise back up to $5000 for the stripped down model..after all who needs them but 'professionals'? you're a consumer? pff suck it up and buy your iThingy that's all you need.. no learning programming for you unless you want to pay for that 'professional' access to proper hardware.
if this day comes, I will strip computing from my life.
um errr.. thin clients are about lockin too.. the whole thing is dependent on ASPs and ISPs to function. if we switch entirely to thin clients, they'll have us over a barrel. users will be powerless to stonewall unwanted change/price hikes/unavailability of the applications they depend on. if that's where computing ends up, I will remove as much of it from my life as possible.
most of these 'apps' are really just customized shells for remote services.
I make it a rule to treat web sites (I refuse to call them 'apps') as last tier tools. I treat them as occasional conveniences and never part of mission critical work because it could disappear/become more expensive, or otherwise change tomorrow in ways that are detrimental to what I'm doing. tier 1 tools consist of locally stored and executed software that allows indefinite use.
well if the money isn't there to produce anything interesting, why should I watch? I do know that as the dollar depreciates, things have been getting worse. this isn't limited to entertainment of course...
um.. wow. your post reads like someone defending a lost child from a predator. maybe you are afraid your life would be empty without it.. that's sad.
1. the interface of tv is archiac.. these days, all tv programs should be available on demand, esp for the price demanded by providers. I shouldn't have to bother with 'recording' a stream at certain times, or putting up with commercials at these prices.
2. reruns - can be entertaining at times, but really, this feeds into #1..reruns are an anachronism.
3. watching film directors and actors talk about themselves is decidedly NOT interesting...it's even less interesting than watching them act in the tiring repetitious soap opera/sitcom/drama and now 'reality tv' formats over and over and over.
4. foreign channels are usually in languages I don't know well...and really, what are they saying that's much different? I'm sure the politics differ in that they speak things that will benefit their towns/states/countries, just like foxnews and cnn do for the US. Big deal, no surprise. otherwise, they're human beings with the same base desires, making their sitcoms/soaps/dramas and reality tv formats similar.. any differences do not make or break tv for me. the format is just tired.
5. you're telling me to widen my horizons? there's more to life than television..widen yours. if being modern means I have to like the dreck passing off as entertainment, then I guess I'm not modern. oh well.
actually everyone's trying to out-apple apple and it's a race to the bottom with apple moving the finish line ever downward.
how would you suggest people name their files and save them?
then if most of the window's covered, it'll be useless most of the time, forcing the user to click anyway.
you're only looking untrustworthy because the others know about everything. if you can choose what they know about you, then you have a chance to prove their would-be assumptions wrong before they have them.
of course.. the news of monsanto's latest intellectual property victory is also important to me.
hahahah. what's so great about it? ..and
the stories about who is cheating on who? (vampires optional)
the unfunny sitcoms that actually need laughtracks for the punchlines?
wondering who's the best singer of shitty pop songs?
wondering if the make believe singer in the make believe highschool is gay?
the useless out of context sound bytes on the news?
whether this old house is haunted?
who's happier with whose wife?
watching grandma 'jwow' saying she'll tell her grandkids she made pizza in italy?
watching pregnant 16yos mutual idiocy?
the 2352354623 girl-power/two minutes man-hate moments per second?
watching cars go around in a circle 500 times?
watching people throw/kick/hit balls?
wrestling?
watching shows about pyramids/stonehenge being docks/portals/messages to aliens?
watching morgan freeman dumb theoretical astrophysics down to kindergarteners?
the cop shows that make us sympathize with the criminals because the preachy cops remind us just how much our justice system sucks?
commercials so annoying they make us make mental notes to NOT buy whatever is being pitched...every 2 minutes.
the $200 a month for 1500 channels of this shit.
to quote AVGN: "AAAAAAAYYSSSSSSSS"
and if you move the mouse while the video's playing and it happens to touch another window half behind it, it'll cover the video as it becomes active.. that would be annoying.