Actually definitions of words are at the very heart of the matter. Your statement is an example of the sloppy thinking that's gotten us into the messes we're in.
Statists are always encroaching on civil liberties. When was the last time the democrats or the republicans stood against that? The left uses the 'we care about your needs and feelings' excuse while the neocons use the 'we want to protect you' excuse. They both want to increase the size of the state at the expense of the middle and lower class.
One has to wonder about the legitimate uses of full disk encryption, which can protect good people from harm, and them from having their privacy needlessly intruded upon.
Sorry, but this is basically an appeal to emotion. Backdooring crypto will make every civilian transaction less secure and would do nothing to coerce government to be more honorable. They've established quite the 'end justifies the means' track record of late. They are not the SS nor are they they the kgb, though it seems they want to be both.
What's worrying me is how quickly people are forgetting the lessons of the cold war, especially here in the US.
I guess I should be like the other greenpeacer extremists here and ask for impossible citations, right? Was that just correlated, or were causatives indicated?
Uh, no such animal exists and you know that. So what? We should live like cavemen and never take risks? It's called risk mitigation and one common method is redundancy.
So what should we do? Live in mud huts as masses of unwashed hippies struggling to get crops to grow? Do you realize how much more farmland we'll need to sustain the current population if we don't have those fossil fuel based fertilizers?
I still vote for limiting population growth, especially in countries that depend on international aid. We should also attempt bootstrapping a stable industry in space before things do get too scarce.
How about this for starters: 1. A design that does not tend towards crazy positive void. 2. Does not allow one to remove all the rods at once, especially from the control room. 3. Does not allow one to shut off all the cooling systems at once, especially while > x% of the rods are removed. 4. Not built on a faultline.
Really, one, two and three, were fixed a long time ago. Four is just common sense.
Because solar and wind lack the energy density needed. Switching to these exclusively in their current technological state would also cause massive death from starvation, and likely, a second dark age as well.
From win7 to win 8? 1. loss of custom window metric adjustments, font sizes, and colors 2. loss of classic desktop (eg win2k/xp) 3. forced color schemes (2:1 brightness ratio prevented darker configurations) 4. fullscreen start menu was distracting and irritating to use compared to a simple menu. 5. dwm locked window updates to 60hz (win8.0, was fixed later) 6. dwm broke a ton of easily fixed backward compatibility with programs that used ddraw to change modes etc. 7. metro apps were (and still are) useless on the desktop. ugly and clunky too 8. unified search was compromised, forcing users to go back to dir filename/a/s in a command prompt 9. This is a big one for me: removed technical information in stop errors. If stop errors prevent the system from booting, it makes diagnosis a lot harder. 10. two control panels. with windows 10, it's worse because some needed options for the desktop are in one while others are in the 'classic' vista era panel.
It matters to people who need lean, consistent setups such as real time applications...and to people who just want them because they make the machine a lot more pleasant to use.
Cams and devices with cams should come with physical switches that cut power to the device and its mic. The power LED should not be software switchable. If the cam and/or the mic is active, the LED should be on. Perhaps build the switch into a plastic shield that covers the lens and pickup when switched off.
Really, don't upload your nudes to the 'cloud'. This should be common sense. I have no sympathy for the 'victims' of 'fappenings.' They victimized themselves with their own stupidity.
Well, he chose to implement a payscale that mimics the desired outcome of far left government policy. It is a valid comparison. The only real difference is that it was done in a private firm (I assume it's not publicly traded). Why work hard for promotion to officerdom when you'll be paid the same as the secretary? Might as well brush off the resume and find a better paying position elsewhere. Talent can't be retained without the opportunity for promotion and bigger paychecks. He's being sued for a reason.
Even then, if the boss decides the 'merit' should be based on irrelevant attributes (like familial relation, race, sex, etc) instead of relative value of output, then morale suffers, taking productivity with it. A great example of this is affirmative action policy. The fact this particular action was taken privately instead of imposed by a government is irrelevant. He's being sued for a reason.
Too much competition in a business means there's too much redundant labor competing for the same work. Too much enforced 'cooperation' policy creates too much management overhead for individuals to get work done efficiently.
..and yet not a single counterexample from you. Just namecalling. For someone claiming to come from a place that's supposedly above things like generalizations and discrimination, you sure do like to discriminate. Maybe you should ban a few more urinals and let a few more muslims over the border. That'll fix it.
I notice a lot of this hypocrisy coming from Europeans posting here. It's funny how they're quick to say Americans are indoctrinated fools, yet the similarities of the spin in their posts makes it seem like they're suffering from propaganda at least as much.
The west is in trouble because of the way the funny money is being manipulated by extra-market forces, mainly governments, but, yes bankers, too. Bankers can buy governments off. Governments shouldn't allow that.
Socialism doesn't work because people are NOT equal in ability or utility to an organization. Equalizing the payoff for everyone just disenfranchises those who end up doing the majority of the work. The real question is how much more of society are we going to ruin in vain attempts to disprove that. Sure he can run his own company any way he likes (assuming no shareholders), but it sounds like his attempt at social 'justice' isn't going any better than others have. It just builds resentment and infighting.
Too much price fixing ends up damaging other companies providing prereq goods and services. Then the state has to step in to 'save' them as well. Eventually the whole 'market' is centralized and dictated by politics and feelings of a ruling class rather than the realities of cost and consumer demand. Then it rots away eg: the Soviet Union.
Haven't you heard? Words can 'trigger' people, now, somehow...someway. If it hurts 'muh feels' then it's wrong, end of discussion.
Meanwhile, racial generalizations about white people are perfectly acceptable discourse. They must 'check their privilege' after all as whites 'can't be victims of racism'. For great social justice, we get signal boost!
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Gameplay is to 'artistic designers' as GUI usability is to 'UX designers'
Well encouraging the US gov to play games with its funny money and go further into debt won't help you get there.
Actually definitions of words are at the very heart of the matter. Your statement is an example of the sloppy thinking that's gotten us into the messes we're in.
Maybe you should drive to the airport and buy a one way ticket to sweden if that's how you want to live.
Statists are always encroaching on civil liberties. When was the last time the democrats or the republicans stood against that? The left uses the 'we care about your needs and feelings' excuse while the neocons use the 'we want to protect you' excuse. They both want to increase the size of the state at the expense of the middle and lower class.
Which socialists would have no problem doing. They've established quite the historical precedent for trampling things like free speech, assembly etc.
One has to wonder about the legitimate uses of full disk encryption, which can protect good people from harm, and them from having their privacy needlessly intruded upon.
Sorry, but this is basically an appeal to emotion. Backdooring crypto will make every civilian transaction less secure and would do nothing to coerce government to be more honorable. They've established quite the 'end justifies the means' track record of late. They are not the SS nor are they they the kgb, though it seems they want to be both.
What's worrying me is how quickly people are forgetting the lessons of the cold war, especially here in the US.
I guess I should be like the other greenpeacer extremists here and ask for impossible citations, right? Was that just correlated, or were causatives indicated?
Uh, no such animal exists and you know that. So what? We should live like cavemen and never take risks? It's called risk mitigation and one common method is redundancy.
So what should we do? Live in mud huts as masses of unwashed hippies struggling to get crops to grow? Do you realize how much more farmland we'll need to sustain the current population if we don't have those fossil fuel based fertilizers?
I still vote for limiting population growth, especially in countries that depend on international aid. We should also attempt bootstrapping a stable industry in space before things do get too scarce.
It might just be easier to limit population growth.
How about this for starters:
1. A design that does not tend towards crazy positive void.
2. Does not allow one to remove all the rods at once, especially from the control room.
3. Does not allow one to shut off all the cooling systems at once, especially while > x% of the rods are removed.
4. Not built on a faultline.
Really, one, two and three, were fixed a long time ago. Four is just common sense.
Because solar and wind lack the energy density needed. Switching to these exclusively in their current technological state would also cause massive death from starvation, and likely, a second dark age as well.
From win7 to win 8? /a/s in a command prompt
1. loss of custom window metric adjustments, font sizes, and colors
2. loss of classic desktop (eg win2k/xp)
3. forced color schemes (2:1 brightness ratio prevented darker configurations)
4. fullscreen start menu was distracting and irritating to use compared to a simple menu.
5. dwm locked window updates to 60hz (win8.0, was fixed later)
6. dwm broke a ton of easily fixed backward compatibility with programs that used ddraw to change modes etc.
7. metro apps were (and still are) useless on the desktop. ugly and clunky too
8. unified search was compromised, forcing users to go back to dir filename
9. This is a big one for me: removed technical information in stop errors. If stop errors prevent the system from booting, it makes diagnosis a lot harder.
10. two control panels. with windows 10, it's worse because some needed options for the desktop are in one while others are in the 'classic' vista era panel.
It matters to people who need lean, consistent setups such as real time applications...and to people who just want them because they make the machine a lot more pleasant to use.
Cams and devices with cams should come with physical switches that cut power to the device and its mic. The power LED should not be software switchable. If the cam and/or the mic is active, the LED should be on. Perhaps build the switch into a plastic shield that covers the lens and pickup when switched off.
Really, don't upload your nudes to the 'cloud'. This should be common sense. I have no sympathy for the 'victims' of 'fappenings.' They victimized themselves with their own stupidity.
Well, he chose to implement a payscale that mimics the desired outcome of far left government policy. It is a valid comparison. The only real difference is that it was done in a private firm (I assume it's not publicly traded). Why work hard for promotion to officerdom when you'll be paid the same as the secretary? Might as well brush off the resume and find a better paying position elsewhere. Talent can't be retained without the opportunity for promotion and bigger paychecks. He's being sued for a reason.
Even then, if the boss decides the 'merit' should be based on irrelevant attributes (like familial relation, race, sex, etc) instead of relative value of output, then morale suffers, taking productivity with it. A great example of this is affirmative action policy. The fact this particular action was taken privately instead of imposed by a government is irrelevant. He's being sued for a reason.
Too much competition in a business means there's too much redundant labor competing for the same work. Too much enforced 'cooperation' policy creates too much management overhead for individuals to get work done efficiently.
..and yet not a single counterexample from you. Just namecalling. For someone claiming to come from a place that's supposedly above things like generalizations and discrimination, you sure do like to discriminate. Maybe you should ban a few more urinals and let a few more muslims over the border. That'll fix it.
I notice a lot of this hypocrisy coming from Europeans posting here. It's funny how they're quick to say Americans are indoctrinated fools, yet the similarities of the spin in their posts makes it seem like they're suffering from propaganda at least as much.
The west is in trouble because of the way the funny money is being manipulated by extra-market forces, mainly governments, but, yes bankers, too. Bankers can buy governments off. Governments shouldn't allow that.
Is he anything like bennett haselton though?
Socialism doesn't work because people are NOT equal in ability or utility to an organization. Equalizing the payoff for everyone just disenfranchises those who end up doing the majority of the work. The real question is how much more of society are we going to ruin in vain attempts to disprove that. Sure he can run his own company any way he likes (assuming no shareholders), but it sounds like his attempt at social 'justice' isn't going any better than others have. It just builds resentment and infighting.
Too much price fixing ends up damaging other companies providing prereq goods and services. Then the state has to step in to 'save' them as well. Eventually the whole 'market' is centralized and dictated by politics and feelings of a ruling class rather than the realities of cost and consumer demand. Then it rots away eg: the Soviet Union.
Haven't you heard? Words can 'trigger' people, now, somehow...someway. If it hurts 'muh feels' then it's wrong, end of discussion.
Meanwhile, racial generalizations about white people are perfectly acceptable discourse. They must 'check their privilege' after all as whites 'can't be victims of racism'. For great social justice, we get signal boost!
That's true, and I think most people get that by now. There's nothing wrong with expressing their opinions about what they think reddit 'should' do.
Reddit also comes with crazy SJW moderators, company policy, and an army of easily offended users.