Just because people disagree with you (and with the other people who unthinkingly agree with you) doesn't make them "groupthink". Spouting nonsense like "to the left" is groupthink. Calling him "Dr. Paul" when he's "Representative Paul" outside his cult is groupthink.
Why? I'm a Romney supporter and I'd call him Dr. Paul. After all, he's done far more as an ob-gyn doctor than he's ever done as a legislator. Even he'd probably tell you that.
Soon you will be able to tell Facebook more complicated things like:
me want banana like banana want like me want fuck
and so on. Just by adding a few buttons, the possibilities will be nearly endless.
A banana button? Sounds like Web 4.0 to me!
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Firstly, no; he really didn't. He did go back twelve years, but he didn't have to.
And you don't bother to mention anything more recent. You really can't.
Secondly, he wasn't proffering it as evidence of "the awfulness of American society". Thirdly, I'd like to point out the irony of your comment, considering it's in reply to a discussion of people who are predisposed to seeing things where they don't exist.
#2 is splitting hairs, #3 isn't irony, just your lack of a sense of humor to see that I'm teasing our friends across the pond(s).
Lastly, if you want to see how "laid back" and "tolerant" America is, count the number of states where gay marriage is legal, count the number of frothing, rabid protestors whenever issues of abortion or gay marriage are raised, count the number of people who listen to Rush Limbaugh.
A fair reckoning, of course, would be to look at the funding for AIDS research, but that would be inconvenient to your paranoia about a homophobic conspiracy.
Also inconvenient is that the group that has come out the most strongly against gay marriage have been blacks. They're not listening to Limbaugh (nor are you, since the guy is perfectly tolerant and laid back if you actually listen to his show) but they also don't feel any compulsion to do what whiny white liberals demand that they do. More importantly, when whiny white liberals threaten to not be their friend, they don't give a fuck. They've listened to the arguments on their merits and found them unconvincing.
That's the reason the gay rights movement has been a train wreck: they've never presented a coherent reason why they deserve broad social approval, only condemnation of people who don't grant it, as you just did. And then, repeatedly, when the issue came to a vote and it didn't go their way, they went to the courts to overturn it. That notion that they were going to force society to accept them through dicta from courts has basically been the animating factor behind the anti-gay rights movement.
I suspect that in 20 years gay marriage will happen, but it will be largely due to demographic shift, and in *spite* of the gay rights movement. But liberals will never accept responsibility for their actions or seriously question their judgment, it will just be on to the next Quest for Great Justice.
You may be lucky enough to live in one of the few amazing cities in America where tolerance and fair-mindedness seems to prevail but from everything I've seen, those are mere enclaves surrounded by a morass of closed-minded moralising nogoodniks.
Well, those cities are all run by liberals, so what do you expect? It is a lot more laid back and tolerant down South.
The GP had to go back twelve years to find a few assholes arguing about teletubbies as evidence of the awfulness of American society; that's the best proof of America's laid back and tolerant nature I've ever seen.
For gods sake, why does every story on slashdot always have to have a +5 insightful thread bashing America?
Because there are Canadians and Eurotrash mods who think every idiot remark bashing the US is brilliantly clever and daring, so it's pretty much free karma.
A ward is part of a building or complex, such as a hospital.
No, no, a ward is something you use to shield yourself from something, hence the phrase "to ward X off". He'd have a different ward depending on the villain, for example, when he went up against Mr. Freeze he'd be wearing the Bat Thermal Underwear.
Considering from the moderators here that "troll" means "any post I don't agree with", you need to understand why this is such a bad idea. What is a troll, exactly? Concrete, objective definition please.
I remember back in the day on some smaller boards when trolling had a pretty specific meaning: it meant someone who was probably mentally disturbed who would routinely hurl invective at people on a board, try to set up arguments between people, and such.
Years ago on/., trolls were a specific group of people who just liked to fuck with people. They'd cook up certain irrelevant posts that would get a lot of angry comments, or they'd do stuff to wreck the layout of the page, or just post bizarre stories or whatever.
But now, trolling has lost its meaning because it's become ubiquitous... it's gotten to the point where someone says something stupid, you point it out, and they claim that they were trolling you./. just needs to update its mod labels to reflect the way the terms have changed in meaning. But whether it's through "troll" or "flamebait", I know that people across the ideological divide from me are promoting people they agree with, and suppressing people who agree with me, so I'm forced to do the same to balance it out.
Well, I'll grant you, hacker is lamentable. It just proves that we should keep our jargon inscrutable and unmarketable or it will turn into poo.
The degradation of virus is useful in that it can automatically flag your bullshit detector. Since there are few actual viruses any more, if someone mentions a useful term like "trojan" or "worm", they might actually know what they're talking about. Might.
"Pirate" was used to refer to copyright violators hundreds of years ago, at around the time the first copyright laws were introduced. Not that it's any better, it's just that hyperbolic dysphemisms aren't a recent occurrence. I suspect "thief" has also always been similarly misused.
I do find it funny that people get offended by misuse of terms like "architect" or "engineer". Like engineer, it's only supposed to apply to someone who has done a rigorous degree and makes vast public works projects, yet the reality is it has always meant and is still used to refer to someone who drives a train.
Your point being? If "They" want you "They" will have you... boiled, fried, stewed, with or without a warrant...
Or have you forgotten The little rooms the NSA keeps on the backbones sniffing and sorting all the traffic. They don't need your server -- they already have it.
noia + noia = paranoia.
It's unlikely, just from an engineering standpoint, that the NSA hangs on to any significant volume of data for hours, let alone months, and it's unlikely from a legal / political standpoint that they share it with LE. And what we've seen from reports by the companies being asked for data is that if law enforcement wants to do an investigation, they actually do call up those companies and serve them with a warrant.
If you run your own server, they can't do that. For the types of trouble that are within the realm of practical concern (lawsuit, jealous ex stalking you, IP disputes, etc) you're a lot better off with a private server than a Gmail account.
LIBERALS! History's greatest monsters. Hitler was a liberal. Satan, too, is a liberal.
Nah, the greatest monsters are daycare workers. While she was a Florida prosecutor, Janet Reno was quite famous for running an inquisition looking for ritual satanic sex abuse. She actually locked people in cells, kept the cold, wet and shivering to coerce testimony from them... and those were *her* witnesses.
And Clinton made her AG, partly on the strength of that record. Yes, that same Clinton who was terribly offended at Starr's investigation of him had been perfectly happy to appoint an AG who ran an inquisition looking for Satanic sex cults against some day care workers.
It's that ability to look beyond dogma, hyperbole, straw-man arguments, etc. and make your own decisions.
And, you know, read a paragraph.
Knowledge-Based Education – We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.
Alarmingly, they openly state that they oppose schools teaching critical thinking...
So, from the platform, page 12:
Knowledge-Based Education – We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.
My boldface. What they're opposing are a specific series of programs that they claim don't teach real critical thinking. It's pathetic.
Sure, you can argue the merits of OBE and such, but recent experience is that Texas's education system has been very successful compared to other states, when you normalize for social background. Texas has a hell of a lot more poor minorities than Vermont or Wisconsin, and the real measure of a public school system is how the poor kids do, not the rich white kids.
I'm hoping that the OP wears cake shoes, just on the principle that if I ever found myself having to eat my shoes, I'd rather they were delicious. And that I was wearing socks, and that I had scrubbed my feet that morning.
It would help if Google didn't ignore quotes, ignore words you've asked for, and change every damned word into another.
EG: tom -> thomas, tree -> bush, etc, etc.
The only real way to get any sensible results out of Google these days is to use 'verbatim'... which still has flaws. I find I get zero meaningful results unless I use it on more than 1/2 my searches.
Honestly, Google has gone insane in the last 2 years.
People are considered "tech savvy" by just being able to use a smartphone.
Reminds me of the News Co scandal where they "hacked" some phones by dialing the standard numbers for voicemail, which worked because the victims hadn't bothered to set a password...
Being "tech savvy" has lost it's meaning these days.
I suspect any type of savvy has been fairly meaningless when used by mass media for a while now.
Of all the series, Enterprise is probably the most accessible. The production is modern, it's well written, well paced, and the characters are the most likable. Granted, they don't match the chemistry of Kirk, Spock and McCoy, but they come pretty close. And some characters, like Shran, are just brilliant.
Generally, I think the writing is just consistently good. They set themselves up for success; simply because the Federation isn't all powerful, they don't need implausible opponents like omnipotent beings that can't read minds, or cyborgs that have assimilated thousands of races but could be destroyed by an Escher print.
And in some of the older series, the writing could be awful, even leaving aside truly horrific episodes like the TNG pilot or the baseball game in DS9. For instance, some of the most painful writing in TNG and DS9 was their ham-fisted rendition of family themes. McFadden and Wheaton were never bad actors, the mother son thing was just dragged out through endless scenes of awkwardness only for us to finally discover that it's tough growing up on a starship. I found the same with Worf and Alexander, or Sisko and Benjamin.
Enterprise did some shows that touched on growing up themes, especially with Mayweather, but they were more realistic; Mayweather was trying to escape from a life of poverty and drudgery, and this led to serious tension with his family because it pulled him away from the family business.
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Just because people disagree with you (and with the other people who unthinkingly agree with you) doesn't make them "groupthink". Spouting nonsense like "to the left" is groupthink. Calling him "Dr. Paul" when he's "Representative Paul" outside his cult is groupthink.
Why? I'm a Romney supporter and I'd call him Dr. Paul. After all, he's done far more as an ob-gyn doctor than he's ever done as a legislator. Even he'd probably tell you that.
Soon you will be able to tell Facebook more complicated things like:
me want banana
like banana
want like me
want fuck
and so on. Just by adding a few buttons, the possibilities will be nearly endless.
A banana button? Sounds like Web 4.0 to me!
Firstly, no; he really didn't. He did go back twelve years, but he didn't have to.
And you don't bother to mention anything more recent. You really can't.
Secondly, he wasn't proffering it as evidence of "the awfulness of American society". Thirdly, I'd like to point out the irony of your comment, considering it's in reply to a discussion of people who are predisposed to seeing things where they don't exist.
#2 is splitting hairs, #3 isn't irony, just your lack of a sense of humor to see that I'm teasing our friends across the pond(s).
Lastly, if you want to see how "laid back" and "tolerant" America is, count the number of states where gay marriage is legal, count the number of frothing, rabid protestors whenever issues of abortion or gay marriage are raised, count the number of people who listen to Rush Limbaugh.
A fair reckoning, of course, would be to look at the funding for AIDS research, but that would be inconvenient to your paranoia about a homophobic conspiracy.
Also inconvenient is that the group that has come out the most strongly against gay marriage have been blacks. They're not listening to Limbaugh (nor are you, since the guy is perfectly tolerant and laid back if you actually listen to his show) but they also don't feel any compulsion to do what whiny white liberals demand that they do. More importantly, when whiny white liberals threaten to not be their friend, they don't give a fuck. They've listened to the arguments on their merits and found them unconvincing.
That's the reason the gay rights movement has been a train wreck: they've never presented a coherent reason why they deserve broad social approval, only condemnation of people who don't grant it, as you just did. And then, repeatedly, when the issue came to a vote and it didn't go their way, they went to the courts to overturn it. That notion that they were going to force society to accept them through dicta from courts has basically been the animating factor behind the anti-gay rights movement.
I suspect that in 20 years gay marriage will happen, but it will be largely due to demographic shift, and in *spite* of the gay rights movement. But liberals will never accept responsibility for their actions or seriously question their judgment, it will just be on to the next Quest for Great Justice.
You may be lucky enough to live in one of the few amazing cities in America where tolerance and fair-mindedness seems to prevail but from everything I've seen, those are mere enclaves surrounded by a morass of closed-minded moralising nogoodniks.
Well, those cities are all run by liberals, so what do you expect? It is a lot more laid back and tolerant down South.
Having to defend the obvious superiority of Star Wars over Star Trek is just beneath me.
I see what you did there.
The GP had to go back twelve years to find a few assholes arguing about teletubbies as evidence of the awfulness of American society; that's the best proof of America's laid back and tolerant nature I've ever seen.
For gods sake, why does every story on slashdot always have to have a +5 insightful thread bashing America?
Because there are Canadians and Eurotrash mods who think every idiot remark bashing the US is brilliantly clever and daring, so it's pretty much free karma.
A ward is part of a building or complex, such as a hospital.
No, no, a ward is something you use to shield yourself from something, hence the phrase "to ward X off". He'd have a different ward depending on the villain, for example, when he went up against Mr. Freeze he'd be wearing the Bat Thermal Underwear.
Considering from the moderators here that "troll" means "any post I don't agree with", you need to understand why this is such a bad idea. What is a troll, exactly? Concrete, objective definition please.
I remember back in the day on some smaller boards when trolling had a pretty specific meaning: it meant someone who was probably mentally disturbed who would routinely hurl invective at people on a board, try to set up arguments between people, and such.
Years ago on /., trolls were a specific group of people who just liked to fuck with people. They'd cook up certain irrelevant posts that would get a lot of angry comments, or they'd do stuff to wreck the layout of the page, or just post bizarre stories or whatever.
But now, trolling has lost its meaning because it's become ubiquitous... it's gotten to the point where someone says something stupid, you point it out, and they claim that they were trolling you. /. just needs to update its mod labels to reflect the way the terms have changed in meaning. But whether it's through "troll" or "flamebait", I know that people across the ideological divide from me are promoting people they agree with, and suppressing people who agree with me, so I'm forced to do the same to balance it out.
I don't know what's worse, having the grunts or having the squirts.
Try both. I'll never go to Taco Bob's again.
I guess PHISHING and WORMS were just self-explanatory, and the parent didn't want to get special-modded "Too Much Informative".
Well, I'll grant you, hacker is lamentable. It just proves that we should keep our jargon inscrutable and unmarketable or it will turn into poo.
The degradation of virus is useful in that it can automatically flag your bullshit detector. Since there are few actual viruses any more, if someone mentions a useful term like "trojan" or "worm", they might actually know what they're talking about. Might.
"Pirate" was used to refer to copyright violators hundreds of years ago, at around the time the first copyright laws were introduced. Not that it's any better, it's just that hyperbolic dysphemisms aren't a recent occurrence. I suspect "thief" has also always been similarly misused.
I do find it funny that people get offended by misuse of terms like "architect" or "engineer". Like engineer, it's only supposed to apply to someone who has done a rigorous degree and makes vast public works projects, yet the reality is it has always meant and is still used to refer to someone who drives a train.
Your point being? If "They" want you "They" will have you... boiled, fried, stewed, with or without a warrant...
Or have you forgotten The little rooms the NSA keeps on the backbones sniffing and sorting all the traffic. They don't need your server -- they already have it.
noia + noia = paranoia.
It's unlikely, just from an engineering standpoint, that the NSA hangs on to any significant volume of data for hours, let alone months, and it's unlikely from a legal / political standpoint that they share it with LE. And what we've seen from reports by the companies being asked for data is that if law enforcement wants to do an investigation, they actually do call up those companies and serve them with a warrant.
If you run your own server, they can't do that. For the types of trouble that are within the realm of practical concern (lawsuit, jealous ex stalking you, IP disputes, etc) you're a lot better off with a private server than a Gmail account.
The FAQ is better left as it is - a trap for those with ill will.
It accomplishes the opposite. People who have worked to figure out how to exploit the system can do so, while people who had no ill intent get caught.
LIBERALS! History's greatest monsters. Hitler was a liberal. Satan, too, is a liberal.
Nah, the greatest monsters are daycare workers. While she was a Florida prosecutor, Janet Reno was quite famous for running an inquisition looking for ritual satanic sex abuse. She actually locked people in cells, kept the cold, wet and shivering to coerce testimony from them... and those were *her* witnesses.
And Clinton made her AG, partly on the strength of that record. Yes, that same Clinton who was terribly offended at Starr's investigation of him had been perfectly happy to appoint an AG who ran an inquisition looking for Satanic sex cults against some day care workers.
It's that ability to look beyond dogma, hyperbole, straw-man arguments, etc. and make your own decisions.
And, you know, read a paragraph.
Knowledge-Based Education – We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.
You lose.
Alarmingly, they openly state that they oppose schools teaching critical thinking...
So, from the platform, page 12:
Knowledge-Based Education – We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.
My boldface. What they're opposing are a specific series of programs that they claim don't teach real critical thinking. It's pathetic.
Sure, you can argue the merits of OBE and such, but recent experience is that Texas's education system has been very successful compared to other states, when you normalize for social background. Texas has a hell of a lot more poor minorities than Vermont or Wisconsin, and the real measure of a public school system is how the poor kids do, not the rich white kids.
I hope OP wears leather shoes.
I'm hoping that the OP wears cake shoes, just on the principle that if I ever found myself having to eat my shoes, I'd rather they were delicious. And that I was wearing socks, and that I had scrubbed my feet that morning.
It would help if Google didn't ignore quotes, ignore words you've asked for, and change every damned word into another.
EG: tom -> thomas, tree -> bush, etc, etc.
The only real way to get any sensible results out of Google these days is to use 'verbatim'... which still has flaws. I find I get zero meaningful results unless I use it on more than 1/2 my searches.
Honestly, Google has gone insane in the last 2 years.
Thank God there's still Bing.
Kidding, kidding!
Hate to be a grammar nazi, but don't you mean: "but we guess leave it Slashdot editors to what they does best"
Arrrgh, brain hurts...
People are considered "tech savvy" by just being able to use a smartphone.
Reminds me of the News Co scandal where they "hacked" some phones by dialing the standard numbers for voicemail, which worked because the victims hadn't bothered to set a password...
Being "tech savvy" has lost it's meaning these days.
I suspect any type of savvy has been fairly meaningless when used by mass media for a while now.
"They also have less sophisticated security software, and hence, have reported more security problems than other groups."
Strangely, my copy of Foocom Antifail Pro flagged that sentence as 99% full of fail.
That's some hardcore piracy right there, but we guess leave it China to do what it does best.
That's some writing a small child would be ashamed of, but we leave it to Slashdot editors to fail at what they fail at best.
that show suffered from severe bouts of we're-out-of-ideas-lets-show-them-some-skin...
The horror! At least it was never, "let's do the worst baseball game ever shown on television."
and the whole temporal coldwar thing was a cop out.. prequels are supposed to explore the past, not rewrite it.
The question was how to introduce someone to ST. Someone who isn't familiar with canon doesn't care about that.
the creator going on at quite a brisk pace to his speech
Talk about understatement. Turning the volume down was the only way I could figure out WTF was going on.
sure you did, exactly where is the video for your clams again?
So just because they're shellfish they don't have any reasonable expectation of privacy?
Of all the series, Enterprise is probably the most accessible. The production is modern, it's well written, well paced, and the characters are the most likable. Granted, they don't match the chemistry of Kirk, Spock and McCoy, but they come pretty close. And some characters, like Shran, are just brilliant.
Generally, I think the writing is just consistently good. They set themselves up for success; simply because the Federation isn't all powerful, they don't need implausible opponents like omnipotent beings that can't read minds, or cyborgs that have assimilated thousands of races but could be destroyed by an Escher print.
And in some of the older series, the writing could be awful, even leaving aside truly horrific episodes like the TNG pilot or the baseball game in DS9. For instance, some of the most painful writing in TNG and DS9 was their ham-fisted rendition of family themes. McFadden and Wheaton were never bad actors, the mother son thing was just dragged out through endless scenes of awkwardness only for us to finally discover that it's tough growing up on a starship. I found the same with Worf and Alexander, or Sisko and Benjamin.
Enterprise did some shows that touched on growing up themes, especially with Mayweather, but they were more realistic; Mayweather was trying to escape from a life of poverty and drudgery, and this led to serious tension with his family because it pulled him away from the family business.