that show suffered from severe bouts of we're-out-of-ideas-lets-show-them-some-skin...and the whole temporal coldwar thing was a cop out.. prequels are supposed to explore the past, not rewrite it.
I never said everyone should learn everything about everything.. I said that there's a growing trend in the culture of willful ignorance. It's not that people just don't have the time. it's that they dont' want to learn what is REQUIRED to get what it is they want. Easy buttons are demanded for everything now. the result is a ton of mediocre output from such people.
To use the example of the parent I responded to, subjects like video editing/processing are complex. they can be automated to some degree, but at great cost of flexibility. I've had many people ask me how to make their cellphone's 1080p video look as good as the 1080p stuff from hollywood. When I told them they need to at least be willing to buy a real high end consumer or mid range prosumer cam and learn some decent editing software, I get this glazed look. With today's consumer, it seems there's absolutely no interest in learning ANYTHING beyond defaults, even from consumers that expect more from their equipment, when it is absolutely required in order to get the desired output. This concept applies with any common skills-dependent activity associated with average joes. It does worry me because it's much bigger than my personal expectations for computer literacy.
I'm not suggesting everyone learn everything about everything, just have a willingness to learn something more about relevant subjects in order to get the desired output. you know, when the toolbag's itool doesn't give the output wanted?
oh and don't come crawling to people like me when this happens. too many willful ignorants like yourself have done this to people like me, while at the same time whining that 'I make it too hard.' if you don't want to learn, get the fuck out and pay some schlep a fuckton of money to do it for you. get back to me when your wallet hurts enough to motivate the braincells a little.
the difference is that computers aren't even close to that 'simple' point yet, so there's a lot of sacrifice being made for that convenience. The tasks the parent lists require a certain amount of knowledge to do. They can be automated to some degree, but giving access to people who otherwise couldn't figure out a proper tool just creates a ton of really shitty quality output that's then spammed all over the net. Instagram and cellphone recorded youtube videos come to mind as examples. he also lists locked bootloaders as a 'feature'. they're not. they don't stop your hapless techno-weenie from installing malware riddled applications. they only prevent him (and anyone with a clue he asks for help) from getting into the machine's filesystem to fix the problem. They also discourage any potential interest he might have in tinkering. trust me, you don't want to live in a future where the only source of content comes from corporate providers propped up by content lockin.
I could argue that cars, technology that achieved its apex 30 years ago, are being made MORE needlessly complex and expensive for the owner with all the recent computerized additions. Those black boxes are often undocumented and cause all sorts of hard to work out intermittent failures when they die..and they're expensive too. then there's software bugs.. At this point I'd pay up for a car without any programmable logic in it. It'd be more reliable. of course, this doesn't prop up dealer revenues..
oh, and btw, this is slashdot.. most posters are nerds.. maybe you meant to post on espn.com.
yay I can't wait to store my data on some remote server that could disappear any time. people like you are the reason society is more and more ignorant of consequences. who cares as long as the method is a tiny bit more convenient right the fuck now, right?
1. bw isn't free, esp on cell networks. 2. the internet will never offer the speed and capacity of local storage 3. monthly fees for storage 4. government surveillance/censorship 5. connectivity dependence and 'cost stacks'.. instead of buying a storage device once, the user has to pay for storage and connectivity, usually with monthly charges or else access is lost/the data's gone for good.
We're moving from a culture that encourages individual learning/mastery/understanding of the things used in life, to one of apathetic dependence on convenient 'service'. This is intellectually stunting, which causes all kinds of other problems.
that would suck.. it would make desktops very expensive, and out of the reach of most computer fans.. only large companies could afford them...and only for very specialized work. this is horrible
great.. closed platforms.. that'll be fun to develop for.. guess it's time to start weeding out as much computing from my life as possible, before I become too dependent on systems that are programmed to serve the vendors interest at my personal/mental/financial expense.
And I'm not so sure we're on the winning end of that, people management and networking is becoming more important not less.
Unfortunately, you're right. It's also resulting in less effective output in areas where 'hard' skills are more important. We shouldn't 'soften' these industries just to encourage less capable people because of gender (or race or other irrelevancies) when more capable people are available. Allowing the ideology to trump objective measurement of the output is what caused countries like the soviet union to fail. This is what we're doing with feminism (and other isms too).
just as there's a cultural bias for men to do the smart and/or athletic things too.. the problem is that feminism says it's not ok for men to dominate these fields in that same natural/cultural way.
so have men.. it's just not talked about. here's a few examples.
1. the disposable male: does the dangerous work, dies in the wars, sacrifices for family, live shorter lives yet retires earlier, gets shafted in family court, "my body my right" but he gets no choice yet is held solely accountable for her decision, gets cut out of line in competitive schools preaching 'diversity' as more important than GPA or other relevant attributes. this bias shows up in scholarship applicability. the fact that today's graduating classes are over 60% female is lost on feminist proponents.
2. in the media and in law, healthy masculinity is ridiculed while in femininity, borderline narcissism is celebrated. This isn't occasional. Whether it's VAWA, or nearly every show and every commercial featuring more than one person...
3. assertive boys in school are drugged so that they are more passive and submissive, just like the girls. in junior high, these boys are spoonfed misconstrued stats in health class to breed a strong sense of 'survivor guilt', so that by highschool, they believe the same shit you posted here. By college, this schooling creates a level of self loathing in men that would've been considered mental illness 20-30 years ago. Ask most men today who the 'problem' is in a relationship, and most of them will immediately say 'he' is. Meanwhile, the fact is that spousal and child abuse is about 50/50 across both genders. when it happens to women, it's a media frenzied outrage. when it happens to men, they're the laughing stock on morning talkshows (usually hosted by women). when abusers are finally sentenced, women receive lighter sentences.
4. yes, women were 'repressed' in the past.. but so were the men. Life was tough for everyone.
none at all.. your statements are just as much suppositions as mine.. this is a discussion forum, not a doctoral thesis. Most of the stats you're probably referring to (since you haven't offered any), are likely from sources with ulterior motives. I'm not tearing any women down. I'm stating that her trip isn't special because she's female. That's not an attack.. I criticized left wing propaganda that makes events into achievements because of the very things (in this case gender) they say shouldn't used to judge accomplishment. Why? because it's disingenuous claptrap meant to encourage insecure people ('victims'/'survivors guilt'/stockholm syndrome) to keep certain politicians in power. feminist/left wing proponents demand censorship of people who say things like I do just like the religious right wants to silence views in conflict with their beliefs... usually with shaming language, just like you've done here, because they've got no sound reasoning backing their huge double standards.
not working is a false choice. at the moment, most employed people don't have a choice. they're lucky they have the job they have. employees deserve the same property rights protections for their time and intellectual output you claim their employers should have. This is what defines the difference between employee and slave.
obviously there was a reason or they would have. We've reached the point where no one should be given props for something because of gender. Unfortunately, the pc police of the left wing don't seem to get that doing this is also discrimination. However, if it's not about equality, and instead about propping one side over the other to ensure reliable voting blocs and funding for certain political organizations, this newspeak 'equality' makes perfect sense.
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men offer much more than reproductive ability to society, and it's not all or even mostly negative, no matter what the man-haters say.
huhuhuh... number one, I order you to go take a number two.
that show suffered from severe bouts of we're-out-of-ideas-lets-show-them-some-skin...and the whole temporal coldwar thing was a cop out.. prequels are supposed to explore the past, not rewrite it.
false equivalence.. power, gas, and water, are building blocks but, by themselves, are not the focal points of intellectual work.
I never said everyone should learn everything about everything.. I said that there's a growing trend in the culture of willful ignorance. It's not that people just don't have the time. it's that they dont' want to learn what is REQUIRED to get what it is they want. Easy buttons are demanded for everything now. the result is a ton of mediocre output from such people.
To use the example of the parent I responded to, subjects like video editing/processing are complex. they can be automated to some degree, but at great cost of flexibility. I've had many people ask me how to make their cellphone's 1080p video look as good as the 1080p stuff from hollywood. When I told them they need to at least be willing to buy a real high end consumer or mid range prosumer cam and learn some decent editing software, I get this glazed look. With today's consumer, it seems there's absolutely no interest in learning ANYTHING beyond defaults, even from consumers that expect more from their equipment, when it is absolutely required in order to get the desired output. This concept applies with any common skills-dependent activity associated with average joes. It does worry me because it's much bigger than my personal expectations for computer literacy.
I'm not suggesting everyone learn everything about everything, just have a willingness to learn something more about relevant subjects in order to get the desired output. you know, when the toolbag's itool doesn't give the output wanted?
oh and don't come crawling to people like me when this happens. too many willful ignorants like yourself have done this to people like me, while at the same time whining that 'I make it too hard.' if you don't want to learn, get the fuck out and pay some schlep a fuckton of money to do it for you. get back to me when your wallet hurts enough to motivate the braincells a little.
the difference is that computers aren't even close to that 'simple' point yet, so there's a lot of sacrifice being made for that convenience. The tasks the parent lists require a certain amount of knowledge to do. They can be automated to some degree, but giving access to people who otherwise couldn't figure out a proper tool just creates a ton of really shitty quality output that's then spammed all over the net. Instagram and cellphone recorded youtube videos come to mind as examples. he also lists locked bootloaders as a 'feature'. they're not. they don't stop your hapless techno-weenie from installing malware riddled applications. they only prevent him (and anyone with a clue he asks for help) from getting into the machine's filesystem to fix the problem. They also discourage any potential interest he might have in tinkering. trust me, you don't want to live in a future where the only source of content comes from corporate providers propped up by content lockin.
I could argue that cars, technology that achieved its apex 30 years ago, are being made MORE needlessly complex and expensive for the owner with all the recent computerized additions. Those black boxes are often undocumented and cause all sorts of hard to work out intermittent failures when they die..and they're expensive too. then there's software bugs.. At this point I'd pay up for a car without any programmable logic in it. It'd be more reliable. of course, this doesn't prop up dealer revenues..
oh, and btw, this is slashdot.. most posters are nerds.. maybe you meant to post on espn.com.
so... she can hate whatever it is he likes and not have to watch, but he still has to watch her relationship dreck-disguised-as-horror?
it is easy.. until it breaks.. with a 'mass storage device' generic palyer, it just takes a reformat of its flash. new music is a click and drag away.
yay I can't wait to store my data on some remote server that could disappear any time. people like you are the reason society is more and more ignorant of consequences. who cares as long as the method is a tiny bit more convenient right the fuck now, right?
1. bw isn't free, esp on cell networks.
2. the internet will never offer the speed and capacity of local storage
3. monthly fees for storage
4. government surveillance/censorship
5. connectivity dependence and 'cost stacks'.. instead of buying a storage device once, the user has to pay for storage and connectivity, usually with monthly charges or else access is lost/the data's gone for good.
We're moving from a culture that encourages individual learning/mastery/understanding of the things used in life, to one of apathetic dependence on convenient 'service'. This is intellectually stunting, which causes all kinds of other problems.
that would suck.. it would make desktops very expensive, and out of the reach of most computer fans.. only large companies could afford them...and only for very specialized work. this is horrible
great.. closed platforms.. that'll be fun to develop for.. guess it's time to start weeding out as much computing from my life as possible, before I become too dependent on systems that are programmed to serve the vendors interest at my personal/mental/financial expense.
And I'm not so sure we're on the winning end of that, people management and networking is becoming more important not less.
Unfortunately, you're right. It's also resulting in less effective output in areas where 'hard' skills are more important. We shouldn't 'soften' these industries just to encourage less capable people because of gender (or race or other irrelevancies) when more capable people are available. Allowing the ideology to trump objective measurement of the output is what caused countries like the soviet union to fail. This is what we're doing with feminism (and other isms too).
typical response from feminist brainwashing.. can't stereotype women because that's the 'problem', but it's a-ok to stereotype men
questioning feminism does not make one a misogynist.
just as there's a cultural bias for men to do the smart and/or athletic things too.. the problem is that feminism says it's not ok for men to dominate these fields in that same natural/cultural way.
so have men.. it's just not talked about. here's a few examples.
1. the disposable male: does the dangerous work, dies in the wars, sacrifices for family, live shorter lives yet retires earlier, gets shafted in family court, "my body my right" but he gets no choice yet is held solely accountable for her decision, gets cut out of line in competitive schools preaching 'diversity' as more important than GPA or other relevant attributes. this bias shows up in scholarship applicability. the fact that today's graduating classes are over 60% female is lost on feminist proponents.
2. in the media and in law, healthy masculinity is ridiculed while in femininity, borderline narcissism is celebrated. This isn't occasional. Whether it's VAWA, or nearly every show and every commercial featuring more than one person...
3. assertive boys in school are drugged so that they are more passive and submissive, just like the girls. in junior high, these boys are spoonfed misconstrued stats in health class to breed a strong sense of 'survivor guilt', so that by highschool, they believe the same shit you posted here. By college, this schooling creates a level of self loathing in men that would've been considered mental illness 20-30 years ago. Ask most men today who the 'problem' is in a relationship, and most of them will immediately say 'he' is. Meanwhile, the fact is that spousal and child abuse is about 50/50 across both genders. when it happens to women, it's a media frenzied outrage. when it happens to men, they're the laughing stock on morning talkshows (usually hosted by women). when abusers are finally sentenced, women receive lighter sentences.
4. yes, women were 'repressed' in the past.. but so were the men. Life was tough for everyone.
none at all.. your statements are just as much suppositions as mine.. this is a discussion forum, not a doctoral thesis. Most of the stats you're probably referring to (since you haven't offered any), are likely from sources with ulterior motives. I'm not tearing any women down. I'm stating that her trip isn't special because she's female. That's not an attack.. I criticized left wing propaganda that makes events into achievements because of the very things (in this case gender) they say shouldn't used to judge accomplishment. Why? because it's disingenuous claptrap meant to encourage insecure people ('victims'/'survivors guilt'/stockholm syndrome) to keep certain politicians in power. feminist/left wing proponents demand censorship of people who say things like I do just like the religious right wants to silence views in conflict with their beliefs... usually with shaming language, just like you've done here, because they've got no sound reasoning backing their huge double standards.
ad hominem..
so are feminists!
of course.. the chinese government doesn't have to imprison a citizen to get compliance.. it just threatens his life/family/job...
not working is a false choice. at the moment, most employed people don't have a choice. they're lucky they have the job they have. employees deserve the same property rights protections for their time and intellectual output you claim their employers should have. This is what defines the difference between employee and slave.
ok, why is it worth noting? if gender is just anatomy and doesn't matter, then it's unremarkable either way whether women are/are not involved.
obviously there was a reason or they would have. We've reached the point where no one should be given props for something because of gender. Unfortunately, the pc police of the left wing don't seem to get that doing this is also discrimination. However, if it's not about equality, and instead about propping one side over the other to ensure reliable voting blocs and funding for certain political organizations, this newspeak 'equality' makes perfect sense.