Well of course. Unlike the nerds, they were likely well liked and had their natural talents encouraged by the group. Jocks have their own insecurities, too, but they had nerds to use as shitkickers when they were feeling down. In many cases, it's the coaches that encouraged this (esp when they had to double as gym teachers) as they saw the nerds as sacrificial lambs to reenforce team bonding.
It's really hard to fault the nerds in this case, but as you have helped show, society always tries its hardest to defend the proclivities of its most mediocre people. A day living as an outcast geek or nerd would crush the ego of the average jock.
You could use a centralized control box for bog standard lamps and cams, too, and get the same functionality. You can also tell your 21st century empowered wife to get up off her lazy ass and check out the noise, but that would require you to have some balls.
$600 a year for years, and it comes with a kill switch. No thanks. I like knowing my tools will stay in the toolbox where I put them last and I don't like paying over and over for them.
1. private schools? I thought public schools in european countries were supposed to be great. 2. paid vacations are not really paid. They come out of your paycheck one way or another. 3. maid service is certainly not a must have. wtf? 4. lawyers are only needed with over litigious societies and law. 'Free' lawyers is like ordering a 1300cal meal and compensating with a diet soda. 5. I've seen pics of government provided flats in europe and the UK. They're no better than the ghettos, here. Too many people crammed into too small a space.
Lets compare the US to socialist countries in areas that it supposedly doesn't do as well in, and then make poorly causated links between success and levels of applied socialism. It is never that simple. The US spends more money per student than just about every other country in the world. The problem isn't money or access.
Yet another academic propaganda post implying socialism as the answer. I am sick of these.
Oh I perfectly understand where they're going. It's just fucking idiotic and those search boxes are indeed tacked on. Needed workflows are removed to benefit the race-to-the-bottom simplification campaign, and replaced with search. Gone are the easy to memorize control panels, sensible file managers, and menus that don't try to be built-in mobile devices. Now, everything's hidden behind a myriad number of large windows with lots of white space and generalized 'fuzzy' terms that could mean anything. The user has to guess where things are hidden (eg win10 settings panel). I suppose there are several reasons for this, but the big one is probably money. Getting idiots used to searching for everything can be monetized while people with established workflows and who actually have complex work to do cannot be.
The problem is that the latter is hobbled having to search for everything all the time. The UIs of the past were spartan, but functional. There were few distractions. They prettied them up a bit with drop shadows, and animations, which was fine. They gave intuitive cues as to what was happening and they could be disabled. Today, it's a disaster, and I hate being the one who has to help users navigate these interfaces on OSs that used to provide flexible configuration and useful error messages. Sure, users hated the BSOD, but they're useful to people who are expected to fix the problem.
Doesn't have to do with capitalism. It has to do with entitlement. Siteops think they have a right to run whatever code they like on my system. I say no, and refuse to run it. Capitalism doesn't obligate me to them or them to me, in fact, it enables both sides to configure their respective systems as they see fit and let the market decide the outcome. It's only with government imposition that it becomes illegal to block, or illegal to offer ads in the first place.
No. you are placing content on a publicly accessible server tangled in a bunch of executable script, and then bitch when people refuse to run said scripts. If you don't want people doing that, put your content behind a paywall. Then you'll find out what it's actually worth.
just as the site ops aren't entitled to run whatever code they like on my systems. Are you sure they're shutting it off or just modifying the adblock entry?
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Well of course. Unlike the nerds, they were likely well liked and had their natural talents encouraged by the group. Jocks have their own insecurities, too, but they had nerds to use as shitkickers when they were feeling down. In many cases, it's the coaches that encouraged this (esp when they had to double as gym teachers) as they saw the nerds as sacrificial lambs to reenforce team bonding.
It's really hard to fault the nerds in this case, but as you have helped show, society always tries its hardest to defend the proclivities of its most mediocre people. A day living as an outcast geek or nerd would crush the ego of the average jock.
You could use a centralized control box for bog standard lamps and cams, too, and get the same functionality. You can also tell your 21st century empowered wife to get up off her lazy ass and check out the noise, but that would require you to have some balls.
$600 a year for years, and it comes with a kill switch. No thanks. I like knowing my tools will stay in the toolbox where I put them last and I don't like paying over and over for them.
Amazon cloud box != general purpose machine under user control. For now, they let you run pretty much what you want, but that can change at any time.
That's the day you stop using the net and actively work against its tendrils infecting your life.
Yeah, because non white people don't buy the same damn products.
Of course. The People, through their People's deputies, can oversee their own surveillance. Welcome to Liberation!
Yeah, because geeks and nerds are never looked down upon by elitist self-centered asshats who play sports or do other non-nerdy things.
If you want to compromise networks carrying sensitive data, you do.
Actually, the debate is over the definition of equality. The US traditionally defines it as equal opportunity while europe's is equal outcome.
Actually, it's both. Law has been used to shield culture as well as business from disruption.
Exactly my point.
1. private schools? I thought public schools in european countries were supposed to be great.
2. paid vacations are not really paid. They come out of your paycheck one way or another.
3. maid service is certainly not a must have. wtf?
4. lawyers are only needed with over litigious societies and law. 'Free' lawyers is like ordering a 1300cal meal and compensating with a diet soda.
5. I've seen pics of government provided flats in europe and the UK. They're no better than the ghettos, here. Too many people crammed into too small a space.
Lets compare the US to socialist countries in areas that it supposedly doesn't do as well in, and then make poorly causated links between success and levels of applied socialism. It is never that simple. The US spends more money per student than just about every other country in the world. The problem isn't money or access.
Yet another academic propaganda post implying socialism as the answer. I am sick of these.
Belief in crazy shit rarely makes things better.
Oh I perfectly understand where they're going. It's just fucking idiotic and those search boxes are indeed tacked on. Needed workflows are removed to benefit the race-to-the-bottom simplification campaign, and replaced with search. Gone are the easy to memorize control panels, sensible file managers, and menus that don't try to be built-in mobile devices. Now, everything's hidden behind a myriad number of large windows with lots of white space and generalized 'fuzzy' terms that could mean anything. The user has to guess where things are hidden (eg win10 settings panel). I suppose there are several reasons for this, but the big one is probably money. Getting idiots used to searching for everything can be monetized while people with established workflows and who actually have complex work to do cannot be.
The problem is that the latter is hobbled having to search for everything all the time. The UIs of the past were spartan, but functional. There were few distractions. They prettied them up a bit with drop shadows, and animations, which was fine. They gave intuitive cues as to what was happening and they could be disabled. Today, it's a disaster, and I hate being the one who has to help users navigate these interfaces on OSs that used to provide flexible configuration and useful error messages. Sure, users hated the BSOD, but they're useful to people who are expected to fix the problem.
As opposed to a what? A muslim run corporation? An atheist one? Belief in the supernatural has little to do with corporate behavior.
Simple. To make it look like they're doing something about it. NSLs ensure backdoor cooperation.
This also applies to politicians.
Same with facebook.
Doesn't have to do with capitalism. It has to do with entitlement. Siteops think they have a right to run whatever code they like on my system. I say no, and refuse to run it. Capitalism doesn't obligate me to them or them to me, in fact, it enables both sides to configure their respective systems as they see fit and let the market decide the outcome. It's only with government imposition that it becomes illegal to block, or illegal to offer ads in the first place.
No. you are placing content on a publicly accessible server tangled in a bunch of executable script, and then bitch when people refuse to run said scripts. If you don't want people doing that, put your content behind a paywall. Then you'll find out what it's actually worth.
just as the site ops aren't entitled to run whatever code they like on my systems. Are you sure they're shutting it off or just modifying the adblock entry?
they won't because there'll be less data out there, but since most of it is noise (ads and tracking), it's no loss really.
I could say the same for modern 'appified' applications on osx and windows...and modern website design as well.