There are not enough jobs. Even if you are unaware of the problem and how it has been a GROWING problem since technology advanced (since you can't measure technological progress you can't create a solid linkage but a reasonable look does make it look like the two are connected.... which they are.)
AI and robotics will make it so you can't avoid shortage of jobs forever. Can't blame the victims forever and you can't smear them with cherry picked examples forever... unless you can isolate yourself from the world and be ignorant of what is going on (yes, that is also a reference to the 1st world of the past and present.)
The SMART (impossible) thing for Apple to do is simply attach the battery to the bottom of the case and make it part of the battery. They get all the size savings and users could remove and replace the battery with a little effort. This would also open the market to creating 3rd party bottom plates that are thicker with larger batteries (Apple could sell their own as well.)
The quality has gone down, especially as the phones take greater priority; Jobs being gone and those who retired around that time...
Apple needs to spin off the Mac division like they did with Claris (now Filemaker) and still owning them can share plenty between the two but separating and making the mac division survive on it's own may produce better results. The Mac side is not weak it's just being undermined and going downhill despite doing as well sales wise.
Most the innovation does not come from manufacturing. Big risk is what pure research does; some of it seems completely pointless at the time it is being done-- the applications of the gained knowledge are unknown at the time; furthermore, many things are discovered by accident. This is $$$ put into "future work" areas that companies have little incentive to explore; especially companies on the market who are always under pressure to cut R&D for greater returns for investors.
For the younger readers, keep this in mind. Company policies are only there to give HR excuses! If you piss off the wrong people (especially a vindictive HR person) you'll have policies thrown at you by makeshift prosecutors (or actual staff lawyers) including ones they themselves have broken in the past.
Also be wary of staff who seem to know the company policies too well; because it often indicates a nasty person (or somebody who managed to escape an attack.) Normal people don't memorize the whole policy handbook; most people don't even read the whole thing and certainly decisions are often made without consulting it or following it (the larger it is the more likely it's BS only used as a fallback when fears of court cases arise.)
Who's Antifa's astroturf? Some jewish organization? Some legit orgs are jump started by a small astroturf they don't always stay that way.
WTF is it with all this bashing of a small organization who's mission is to stop Nazis or any rebranded resurgence? It is as if we had more attack on them than we did for the Neo-Nazis -- skipping criticism which is rather tired and old by this point but it is far more important to go after Nazi fanboys. Beating the shit out of Nazis is not ideally civilized but it is not the same as just about anything else; besides, they are the exception for the whole planet (FYI, war is not civilized.) One would think a tiny little known group like Antifa would be praised and people signing up like crazy when they got on the national scene protesting our recent Nazi fanboy resurgence. Especially SJW who are desperate for some meaning in their lives-- they should have a far better outlet for their righteousness... maybe they'll actually DO SOMETHING; but probably not because they really don't do anything but blab online which is why they are addicted to unfulfilling platitudes which are best suited for P.C. policing.
I question the motives or intelligence of people who jump on the bandwagon to attack the anti-Nazi crowd.
For every open Nazi fanatic there are 100s of like minded people who are not as extreme but agree with a lot of it.... just like in Germany (and quite a few in the USA at the time.) That is why you can go from fringe minority to movement size suddenly when the majority of the group decides to take action as a group... not necessarily ever following the extreme elements which always do tend to stand out. It's a silent majority of the subgroup; the so-called fanatics are never very silent, only appeased to keep their profile down.
It's an issue for all issue organizations-- look at the political parties-- they are always trying to keep a handle on their internal factions and keep them from bringing down the group or taking over too much of the group and fracturing the base. Before Obama, we had border-line fanatics who jumped the fence once a black man was in and Faux News got big on race baiting them (if you didn't see it, stop reading) and then with Trump's less subtle manipulation they felt safe to come out in the open and surprised people by how much they've grown in number and boldness. This was just those border-line fanatics that had flipped from being silent. It is proper for people to be concerned about further progression; especially around the less fanatic fascists who can rally the larger group: their real base, who will tolerate them just like any party does with it's fringes. Some are seriously wondering if this IS Trump and Trump is at minimum trying to troll concerned people (he does seem to take pleasure in tormenting people who care about things; not really understanding this himself.) You can debate this all you like, but he's clearly sending out signals to them, either he doesn't know how to be subtle, doesn't care, or wants to enjoy trolling people he mocks for caring about something greater than themselves (which totally fits his psych profile.)
We all should know how bad science reporting is. This is the kind of thing that needs to prompt corrections quietly without the science reporters talking about it because they will greatly amplify the damage as now the masses who hear this dispel the whole topic as a fraud... further distorting the "science reporting."
Furthermore, the biases created in the study do undermine it's conclusions to a degree; some of the critique implies one would have to secretly study a real world situation where bad things actually happen for real --- and remove all the protections created to avoid such things. Almost nobody is going to ever do that and creating a simulated situation is already nearly impossible to be allowed for an experiment.
Finally, the bigger points that the study STILL makes is how it turned out -- bad behaviors still were produced and so what if a drama queen caused it to end early? The study always had to be taken with a grain of salt because it was a simulated environment and all the people knew it and no matter how good you make it, they will know it until they get fed up and are unable to quit early (which would be a legal problem if you didn't allow them to say the safe word.) If you poke up people to act badly and they do... remember Milgram's experiment? This wasn't that... but because it went more in that direction doesn't make it completely worthless. Welcome to politics... sometimes the famous example needs to be left alone; yes, for the greater good. No, that is not an absolutism sometimes it actually is good policy and other times it's just an excuse which is why politics is HARD. Psychologists need to know more; the ignorant public can remain ignorant on this one; no, not censorship just don't advertise it... the ignorant masses have many more things they need to learn that are more important than celebrity / reality TV gossip.
Think about how much people don't want to believe bad things and how some will go amazing extents... cognitive dissonance is strong stuff.
Nitpicking a past study which nobody has the guts to attempt to properly recreate (or improve upon.) Many real actual atrocities which rhyme with the experiment is all we need to realize that environmental conditions GREATLY influence human behavior.
There is a mountain of science backing the whole concept and even if you debunk just 1 famous example you accomplish nothing except to give all the deniers something to cling onto to perpetuate similar conditions from which future atrocities are born.
1st) as flawed as IQ tests are, they make a strong effort to avoid testing for one's education because the whole purpose is to measure your ability to think.
2nd) a great education can make you smarter but if you don't use it, you lose it.
3rd) The USA public school decline since the late 70s has nothing to do with this study, that has to do with the American public which polled higher for education as a priority so then the Republicans took it up as a major issue when previously it was lower on their list and largely conceded to the opposition. It is the political war between parties that began after that point that has harmed the American education system. Not saying it is all the Republican's fault; it's mostly the public's fault for shifting their priorities but not enough to actually THINK beyond marketing slogans; although, after a certain point too high a priority makes you more irrational!
4th) We all know but won't want to deal with the real reasons for this trend... stupid people have more kids and modern civilization keeps them alive and reproducing at rates never before possible.
5th) Technology also greatly hinders development in children and continued mental activity in adults. Television puts your brain into a lower state than sleeping, for example. The consumer society of constant escapism has you going for dopamine fixes non-stop which not only distracts from brain use but also diminishes any intellectual highs one gets from figuring things out. Hell, even video games today are mostly just feel-good reward systems without any difficulty; perfected to the point of these addictive pointless mobile games. oh,and don't read a BOOK and THINK -- checkout my cat videos on facebook!
We need to hammer apologists until they accept reality; just like nazi/holocaust deniers. It's really the same irrational behavior that creates these atrocities:
People who can't accept the truth and handle it rationally invent all sorts of excuses to avoid it. It builds up and can create a framework whereby culture, beliefs, mythology, and the warping of religions all support a collective delusion. The South did this to justify their GREED and made it part of their whole way of life so their economy could continue.
Revisionism doesn't just apply to history, it creates it too.
BTW, it's not leaders lying into war-- this is a whole grass roots movement with many people involved all rallying around slavery as their central issue! To the point they started a WAR over it; not simply by just voting (and losing.) If the conspiracy to make the war was the real cause... the propaganda which got the southern masses motivated WAS SLAVERY (and associated tribalism in which they ALL contributed.)
It's dead simple to find proof it was about slavery; they stated it openly and on the record many times. Economics was the driver behind slavery; it is for many things... There are always multiple factors involved, but the institution of slavery was by far the largest factor and the reasons for slavery is beside the point...why they needed to believe in slavery is breaking things down; you can always do that and just keep going as far as you'd like. This is often a tactic to divert attention by focusing on underlying causes instead (you can always go until you get to flawed humanity then to the devil or whatever.)
FYI: Lincoln also greatly undermined the free press! He cut funding; prior to him the press got a few % of the national GDP! I forget the number but today it would be one of the biggest government programs (subsidized not run by gov) after healthcare/retirement (military if you consider that a service.)
The civil war also led to the birth of the modern corporation of today and a massive empowerment of the banks, which led to their take over of policy and later the great depression...
FYI: The Civil War began BEFORE Lincoln got started; and many historians rank Buchanan as the worst because of his role in that war (though he did try to stop it, just didn't do a good job at it... because he sucked?)
Lincoln WON because he finally realized burning cotton would bankrupt the south. (Cotton was so big they based their money on it instead of gold!) Checkmate. It was always about cotton; that is true-- they have to live with themselves so they rationalize a culture of slavery to fuel their economy and "way of life" which many people will die for... Just like if you told meat eaters to stop eating beef for the health of the planet... that is almost civil war kind of stuff right there. Give me burgers or give me death!
The problem with Brill is that 90% of the population can't keep up with him or argue with his points. This is likely almost entirely correct and truthful with plenty of support work to make a strong cogent set of arguments (as strong as can be expected of something outside of science.)
I'm not sure of the practicality of these academic exercises when something for the masses is likely needed.
"The Century of the Self" documentary is amazingly good considering it doesn't have the ability to be dense like a book can. I expect Brill to approach similar themes from different angles as that documentary. It's not just the boomers to blame; they are both the victims (of society) and the biggest perpetrators upon growing up.
Highly trained heavily geared up professionals should not have itchy trigger fingers and need to at least get professional consequences!
People make mistakes on the job and big ones result in consequences including being fired. I'm not saying firing is required as an idiotic zero tolerance policy; especially when properly handled that employee may never make that mistake ever again. As a TEAM failure the whole team needs to feel the failure; more training and at least but a dock in PAY should be minimum. If your team fucks up you don't get bonuses or raises and are lucky to not get reassigned or laid off... if not fired if you are the reason the team failed.
When you are nearly invincible against typical weapons you can take the TIME to wait for that LARGE heavy 50 caliber to rise into view. It is cowardice or mental illness or a SYSTEM which promotes "extreme" caution with the exact opposite reasoning of innocent until proven guilty. Furthermore, better training so you don't question breaking windows and entering from ALL sides and with eyes seeing his hands with the ability to communicate to the team. They often just smash in the door; maybe the back door too -- this is life or death stuff, they should break windows and using a drone to peak in windows should be cheap...
Blaming the victim for involuntary ass scratching (cell phone same thing) or pulling up loose clothes or sneezing is so unprofessional an excuse somebody NEEDS to be fired.
Finally, WTF are they using guns? It is a TEAM where the front guys can have beanbag guns and stun guns and heavier armor. the others can have the bazookas. This wasn't a known criminal or bad location... WTF do we have local prosecutors who must work with the police be the ones to look into their buddies? massive conflict of interest!! When CALLED IN by a tip, the police can prepare-- even if it slows them down a little; it's not like a squad car just happened to pass bye and couldn't wait.
Rubber bullets, Tasers, Gas, and other tech which doesn't get the attention it deserves would be used more if there was a real price to pulling out the guns.
Firewire added restrictions to DMA over a decade ago. USB 3 added DMA support afterwards; possibly they would have had that slip their mind if firewire didn't have to deal with it 1st. Even still, I never liked the idea of a shared bus with many devices having DMA access. I don't know the specifics of USB 3 and how they isolate devices from each other in their DMA space but if they do, I'd guess the CPU is still heavily involved in operations; while firewire never required a master controller for operations like USB. Firewire was more of a simple decentralized network while USB is serial bus for a computer.
NK has been saying stuff about deals forever; plenty of informed people realized that they didn't have a nutcase leader and they were going to get a position of power and some form of equality (nukes) so they could negotiate as one of the "big boys." The Iraq war only proved what a lot of smart people thought since the cold war. When they could theoretically nuke US leaders back, I expected them to adopt the same sort of line other nuclear adversaries.
Don't be so naive and think Trump had hardly anything to do with this... NK is going out of it's way to see all the actually important players 1st and do all the real work. China deserves most the 3rd party credit; the next super power... who is shrewd enough to become the unquestionable world power before the formal boasting begins.
I need a cheaper 8k curved monitor and if the suckers don't buy them I won't be able to buy them! Think about it-- a curved 40" would make a great computer display. under 50" but over 40" - with more curve than the TVs currently have. Actually, the ideal would be curved in both directions...
I'll probably just end up with 2 vertical displays with 4k each. it won't be good for some things (games/movies) but for work it will be great. curved probably needed... because at that height it's a bit of a problem.
MOST people would take advantage of a rich arrogant ignoramus who thinks they are better than everybody else and entitled to everything they were born into? The EU is doing just fine and will continue to do so whether or not the USA continues to play the fool.
Shale oil is lousy stuff and it's not that cost effective; the current situation is a result of Obama's regulations forcing the use of oil permits coupled with the now repealed Pelosi law forbidding export of US oil/gas. One can expect the market now to rise prices way before supplies dwindle. Nobody in their right mind makes serious national policy plans on shale; go educate yourself.
Everybody must EAT and the industry dominates rural areas with their disproportionate political power to the city factories. They make it illegal to simply report about meat production or you are a terrorist, hell they got stuff into the Patriot Act!
There are always some intellectual whores who will sell their minds but the real thing to watch is the INSTITUTIONS who house these corrupt scientists. A think tank pimping out scientists is something to watch but a university or government research lab is where the pitchforks and ropes need to be brought out. The media needs to be taken to task for being lazy and constantly leaping at every PhD who is being pimped to them by shady groups and they NEED to instead be begging professors to take time out from grading to give an opinion (hell, pay them for their time which was more common in the past. A paid consultant is far better than a free professional whore for whatever industry PR firm pays their "think" tank tax write off... these things boomed in the 70s and legit academics hardly are seen on TV anymore.) think about it
The problem with trying to do any political experiments is that you have powerful forces at all levels working for their interests adding variables and trying to skew results. It's also almost always easier to break things than to keep them going or to fix them. So it's quite difficult to test anything without making it massive in scale and using broad averages to try to eliminate all the noise to get a trend line. Even so, there are always big external factors at play which can't be eliminated and the impact is hard to estimate; even if it is so huge that all reasonable adjustments show it's a huge success-- you are talking politics and the profession of lawyers and propagandists-- who's sole purpose is to argue a position regardless of TRUTH, reason, or common sense.
Right now, a lot of Libertards hate UBI because they fail to see it as a small government solution where the welfare is self-managed without supervision of the funds. It saves a great deal of money and reduces government greatly. They could be arguing from that angle and helping it along towards the closest thing they'll ever get to having their way. The problem with UBI approaching that is all the people who just blow their UBI on stupid shit and then end up destitute and looking for more handouts-- and you can't turn a blind eye because some many of them will get in your face... with crime etc. So you STILL end up with management in addition to the unmanaged welfare. Think of the US healthcare embarrassment, it's essentially a hybrid of mostly bad parts of everything... a minimal free support + minimal regulation + almost total anarchy free market exploitation.
human... possibly most existence is or has to be relative perspective.
The 1st world problems can feel just as severe and important to them as the 3rd world problems do to their people. Isolated, they won't ever be aware of what can happen outside of hypothetical fictional musings. Being aware does not put it into conscious thought all the time without reminders and your conscious mind has limitations on how many aspects it can deal with at a time.
For example, in the USA when it was 3rd world and quite barbaric (still left out of the history) they had a revolutionary war over less taxation and less representation than we have today; they also had less to lose by actually fighting and the majority were willing to harbor terrorists/traitors against the government while a minority of less 10% did the fighting until it was looking promising and even then probably only around 20% at peak. (please correct me if I'm not recollecting the numbers correctly; but remember the point is that a tiny group starts things and does the real hard work to build momentum where the majority of recruits who continue that momentum are often still not half the population. Passive and fickle is the majority... easily willing to praise successes and "join" them by word alone. )
Now is the time for nerds to promote and create open standard alternatives to monolithic exploitative corps like Facebook which only offer specific but popular desires of billions.
Twit feeds: Clueless method to post anything for your followers. Facebook posts included EMAIL is not broadcast and blogs are too hard. We need something like a personal RSS feed that is easy to create. It's really a simple specialized blog system with no features. Define the protocols, APIs let others implement. like http, email etc.
People Finder: a way to find people you know and link to what they are publishing. like DNS but for humans. Facebook did this aggressively-- many approaches can be used by many places but we need a standard uniting the task. like DNS... and free... details such as harassing people by email or requiring signup to view things emailed to you by others.. can be left out for others.
Example: I've thought that some sort of RFC for EMAIL which creates an alternative mbox to INBOX... a FRIEND directory with a limited MIME format email that goes into it would be a good idea. This would leverage existing tech, integrate easily with email since friend requests are similar but also would allow specialty use without even touching email use cases. Filtering can be specialized on the FRIEND box as well. NO, we don't just use email we optimize the use case to a special separate use of email technology that doesn't require any of the complexities of email. This is why I suggest another mbox to keep it away from INBOX. Apple does this very well with their notes and todo lists running on top of IMAP without users even realizing it is actually a kind of email client.
Public Identity service: Email is unique and maybe those should be your ID... but we and the governments of the world really could use a unique public identifier standard; an open one as well as an authoritative one with some solid backing. No proof of identity or authentication but merely an ID. I've thought over this problem before as well. I'm thinking a base 52 encoded number comprising a serial number, a year, and a 1 character checksum (depends upon the numeric base.) This should be somewhat easy to memorize and share (due to encoding, which is where I spent most my thought... picking encoding character rules to avoid human errors. Such as not using O because it looks like 0. As well as an escape for indicating other formats like social security numbers (part of the checksum bit indicates alternative format) )
All the experienced should recognize the problem of over simplification of design often plaguing political systems and possibly the inability for the amateur programmers (corrupt or not) to grasp the issues involved.
The concerns about a tyranny of the majority, the urban majorities enslaving the rural minorities they hardly interact with. It is a real problem and it plays out on a macro scale with the exploitation of rural nations (like the colonies; who were aware of this.)
The ERROR of the system is not the population vs geography split which people keep fighting over in extreme terms, it's the extreme simplification nearly everybody uses to think about it. If a programmer was working on such a problem they would debug themselves out of it with some if statements and multiple thresholds if not a simple equation... an AI would create a very complex function...
California deserves much MORE power because we are a democracy limiting them to just 2 senators is crazy. The amount of THEFT of $$$ and influence by the rural population is far greater than the KING was doing to the colonies. There needs to be multiple thresholds.. or an elegant equation. My example above is already better than what we have or has been suggested.
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There are not enough jobs. Even if you are unaware of the problem and how it has been a GROWING problem since technology advanced (since you can't measure technological progress you can't create a solid linkage but a reasonable look does make it look like the two are connected.... which they are.)
AI and robotics will make it so you can't avoid shortage of jobs forever. Can't blame the victims forever and you can't smear them with cherry picked examples forever... unless you can isolate yourself from the world and be ignorant of what is going on (yes, that is also a reference to the 1st world of the past and present.)
The SMART (impossible) thing for Apple to do is simply attach the battery to the bottom of the case and make it part of the battery. They get all the size savings and users could remove and replace the battery with a little effort. This would also open the market to creating 3rd party bottom plates that are thicker with larger batteries (Apple could sell their own as well.)
The quality has gone down, especially as the phones take greater priority; Jobs being gone and those who retired around that time...
Apple needs to spin off the Mac division like they did with Claris (now Filemaker) and still owning them can share plenty between the two but separating and making the mac division survive on it's own may produce better results. The Mac side is not weak it's just being undermined and going downhill despite doing as well sales wise.
Most the innovation does not come from manufacturing. Big risk is what pure research does; some of it seems completely pointless at the time it is being done-- the applications of the gained knowledge are unknown at the time; furthermore, many things are discovered by accident.
This is $$$ put into "future work" areas that companies have little incentive to explore; especially companies on the market who are always under pressure to cut R&D for greater returns for investors.
LOL! Down Syndrome is genetic plus the poster spelled it wrong. The poster is showing how slow they actually are.
For the younger readers, keep this in mind. Company policies are only there to give HR excuses! If you piss off the wrong people (especially a vindictive HR person) you'll have policies thrown at you by makeshift prosecutors (or actual staff lawyers) including ones they themselves have broken in the past.
Also be wary of staff who seem to know the company policies too well; because it often indicates a nasty person (or somebody who managed to escape an attack.) Normal people don't memorize the whole policy handbook; most people don't even read the whole thing and certainly decisions are often made without consulting it or following it (the larger it is the more likely it's BS only used as a fallback when fears of court cases arise.)
Who's Antifa's astroturf? Some jewish organization? Some legit orgs are jump started by a small astroturf they don't always stay that way.
WTF is it with all this bashing of a small organization who's mission is to stop Nazis or any rebranded resurgence? It is as if we had more attack on them than we did for the Neo-Nazis -- skipping criticism which is rather tired and old by this point but it is far more important to go after Nazi fanboys. Beating the shit out of Nazis is not ideally civilized but it is not the same as just about anything else; besides, they are the exception for the whole planet (FYI, war is not civilized.) One would think a tiny little known group like Antifa would be praised and people signing up like crazy when they got on the national scene protesting our recent Nazi fanboy resurgence. Especially SJW who are desperate for some meaning in their lives-- they should have a far better outlet for their righteousness... maybe they'll actually DO SOMETHING; but probably not because they really don't do anything but blab online which is why they are addicted to unfulfilling platitudes which are best suited for P.C. policing.
I question the motives or intelligence of people who jump on the bandwagon to attack the anti-Nazi crowd.
For every open Nazi fanatic there are 100s of like minded people who are not as extreme but agree with a lot of it.... just like in Germany (and quite a few in the USA at the time.) That is why you can go from fringe minority to movement size suddenly when the majority of the group decides to take action as a group... not necessarily ever following the extreme elements which always do tend to stand out. It's a silent majority of the subgroup; the so-called fanatics are never very silent, only appeased to keep their profile down.
It's an issue for all issue organizations-- look at the political parties-- they are always trying to keep a handle on their internal factions and keep them from bringing down the group or taking over too much of the group and fracturing the base. Before Obama, we had border-line fanatics who jumped the fence once a black man was in and Faux News got big on race baiting them (if you didn't see it, stop reading) and then with Trump's less subtle manipulation they felt safe to come out in the open and surprised people by how much they've grown in number and boldness. This was just those border-line fanatics that had flipped from being silent. It is proper for people to be concerned about further progression; especially around the less fanatic fascists who can rally the larger group: their real base, who will tolerate them just like any party does with it's fringes. Some are seriously wondering if this IS Trump and Trump is at minimum trying to troll concerned people (he does seem to take pleasure in tormenting people who care about things; not really understanding this himself.) You can debate this all you like, but he's clearly sending out signals to them, either he doesn't know how to be subtle, doesn't care, or wants to enjoy trolling people he mocks for caring about something greater than themselves (which totally fits his psych profile.)
All by yourself without treaties...and voluntary self regulation? good luck with that. .The .DoC .has .done .so .well .handling .the .internet .too .!
We all should know how bad science reporting is. This is the kind of thing that needs to prompt corrections quietly without the science reporters talking about it because they will greatly amplify the damage as now the masses who hear this dispel the whole topic as a fraud... further distorting the "science reporting."
Furthermore, the biases created in the study do undermine it's conclusions to a degree; some of the critique implies one would have to secretly study a real world situation where bad things actually happen for real --- and remove all the protections created to avoid such things. Almost nobody is going to ever do that and creating a simulated situation is already nearly impossible to be allowed for an experiment.
Finally, the bigger points that the study STILL makes is how it turned out -- bad behaviors still were produced and so what if a drama queen caused it to end early? The study always had to be taken with a grain of salt because it was a simulated environment and all the people knew it and no matter how good you make it, they will know it until they get fed up and are unable to quit early (which would be a legal problem if you didn't allow them to say the safe word.) If you poke up people to act badly and they do... remember Milgram's experiment? This wasn't that... but because it went more in that direction doesn't make it completely worthless. Welcome to politics... sometimes the famous example needs to be left alone; yes, for the greater good. No, that is not an absolutism sometimes it actually is good policy and other times it's just an excuse which is why politics is HARD. Psychologists need to know more; the ignorant public can remain ignorant on this one; no, not censorship just don't advertise it... the ignorant masses have many more things they need to learn that are more important than celebrity / reality TV gossip.
Think about how much people don't want to believe bad things and how some will go amazing extents... cognitive dissonance is strong stuff.
Nitpicking a past study which nobody has the guts to attempt to properly recreate (or improve upon.) Many real actual atrocities which rhyme with the experiment is all we need to realize that environmental conditions GREATLY influence human behavior.
There is a mountain of science backing the whole concept and even if you debunk just 1 famous example you accomplish nothing except to give all the deniers something to cling onto to perpetuate similar conditions from which future atrocities are born.
1st) as flawed as IQ tests are, they make a strong effort to avoid testing for one's education because the whole purpose is to measure your ability to think.
2nd) a great education can make you smarter but if you don't use it, you lose it.
3rd) The USA public school decline since the late 70s has nothing to do with this study, that has to do with the American public which polled higher for education as a priority so then the Republicans took it up as a major issue when previously it was lower on their list and largely conceded to the opposition. It is the political war between parties that began after that point that has harmed the American education system. Not saying it is all the Republican's fault; it's mostly the public's fault for shifting their priorities but not enough to actually THINK beyond marketing slogans; although, after a certain point too high a priority makes you more irrational!
4th) We all know but won't want to deal with the real reasons for this trend... stupid people have more kids and modern civilization keeps them alive and reproducing at rates never before possible.
5th) Technology also greatly hinders development in children and continued mental activity in adults. Television puts your brain into a lower state than sleeping, for example. The consumer society of constant escapism has you going for dopamine fixes non-stop which not only distracts from brain use but also diminishes any intellectual highs one gets from figuring things out. Hell, even video games today are mostly just feel-good reward systems without any difficulty; perfected to the point of these addictive pointless mobile games. oh ,and don't read a BOOK and THINK -- checkout my cat videos on facebook!
We need to hammer apologists until they accept reality; just like nazi/holocaust deniers. It's really the same irrational behavior that creates these atrocities:
People who can't accept the truth and handle it rationally invent all sorts of excuses to avoid it. It builds up and can create a framework whereby culture, beliefs, mythology, and the warping of religions all support a collective delusion. The South did this to justify their GREED and made it part of their whole way of life so their economy could continue.
Revisionism doesn't just apply to history, it creates it too.
BTW, it's not leaders lying into war-- this is a whole grass roots movement with many people involved all rallying around slavery as their central issue! To the point they started a WAR over it; not simply by just voting (and losing.) If the conspiracy to make the war was the real cause... the propaganda which got the southern masses motivated WAS SLAVERY (and associated tribalism in which they ALL contributed.)
It's dead simple to find proof it was about slavery; they stated it openly and on the record many times. Economics was the driver behind slavery; it is for many things... There are always multiple factors involved, but the institution of slavery was by far the largest factor and the reasons for slavery is beside the point...why they needed to believe in slavery is breaking things down; you can always do that and just keep going as far as you'd like. This is often a tactic to divert attention by focusing on underlying causes instead (you can always go until you get to flawed humanity then to the devil or whatever.)
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Lincoln also greatly undermined the free press! He cut funding; prior to him the press got a few % of the national GDP! I forget the number but today it would be one of the biggest government programs (subsidized not run by gov) after healthcare/retirement (military if you consider that a service.)
The civil war also led to the birth of the modern corporation of today and a massive empowerment of the banks, which led to their take over of policy and later the great depression...
FYI: The Civil War began BEFORE Lincoln got started; and many historians rank Buchanan as the worst because of his role in that war (though he did try to stop it, just didn't do a good job at it... because he sucked?)
Lincoln WON because he finally realized burning cotton would bankrupt the south. (Cotton was so big they based their money on it instead of gold!) Checkmate. It was always about cotton; that is true-- they have to live with themselves so they rationalize a culture of slavery to fuel their economy and "way of life" which many people will die for... Just like if you told meat eaters to stop eating beef for the health of the planet... that is almost civil war kind of stuff right there. Give me burgers or give me death!
The problem with Brill is that 90% of the population can't keep up with him or argue with his points. This is likely almost entirely correct and truthful with plenty of support work to make a strong cogent set of arguments (as strong as can be expected of something outside of science.)
I'm not sure of the practicality of these academic exercises when something for the masses is likely needed.
"The Century of the Self" documentary is amazingly good considering it doesn't have the ability to be dense like a book can. I expect Brill to approach similar themes from different angles as that documentary. It's not just the boomers to blame; they are both the victims (of society) and the biggest perpetrators upon growing up.
Highly trained heavily geared up professionals should not have itchy trigger fingers and need to at least get professional consequences!
People make mistakes on the job and big ones result in consequences including being fired. I'm not saying firing is required as an idiotic zero tolerance policy; especially when properly handled that employee may never make that mistake ever again. As a TEAM failure the whole team needs to feel the failure; more training and at least but a dock in PAY should be minimum. If your team fucks up you don't get bonuses or raises and are lucky to not get reassigned or laid off... if not fired if you are the reason the team failed.
When you are nearly invincible against typical weapons you can take the TIME to wait for that LARGE heavy 50 caliber to rise into view. It is cowardice or mental illness or a SYSTEM which promotes "extreme" caution with the exact opposite reasoning of innocent until proven guilty. Furthermore, better training so you don't question breaking windows and entering from ALL sides and with eyes seeing his hands with the ability to communicate to the team. They often just smash in the door; maybe the back door too -- this is life or death stuff, they should break windows and using a drone to peak in windows should be cheap...
Blaming the victim for involuntary ass scratching (cell phone same thing) or pulling up loose clothes or sneezing is so unprofessional an excuse somebody NEEDS to be fired.
Finally, WTF are they using guns? It is a TEAM where the front guys can have beanbag guns and stun guns and heavier armor. the others can have the bazookas. This wasn't a known criminal or bad location... WTF do we have local prosecutors who must work with the police be the ones to look into their buddies? massive conflict of interest!! When CALLED IN by a tip, the police can prepare-- even if it slows them down a little; it's not like a squad car just happened to pass bye and couldn't wait.
Rubber bullets, Tasers, Gas, and other tech which doesn't get the attention it deserves would be used more if there was a real price to pulling out the guns.
>I thought I could pray hard for Trump to come down with brain cancer and die, soon, and have it happen.
You missed your target; or your god did.
Firewire added restrictions to DMA over a decade ago. USB 3 added DMA support afterwards; possibly they would have had that slip their mind if firewire didn't have to deal with it 1st. Even still, I never liked the idea of a shared bus with many devices having DMA access. I don't know the specifics of USB 3 and how they isolate devices from each other in their DMA space but if they do, I'd guess the CPU is still heavily involved in operations; while firewire never required a master controller for operations like USB. Firewire was more of a simple decentralized network while USB is serial bus for a computer.
too bad I don't have mod points. Really good points I wish I remembered to make.
People should wise up and watch a good old movie to get some apparently new thoughts:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0...
NK has been saying stuff about deals forever; plenty of informed people realized that they didn't have a nutcase leader and they were going to get a position of power and some form of equality (nukes) so they could negotiate as one of the "big boys." The Iraq war only proved what a lot of smart people thought since the cold war. When they could theoretically nuke US leaders back, I expected them to adopt the same sort of line other nuclear adversaries.
Don't be so naive and think Trump had hardly anything to do with this... NK is going out of it's way to see all the actually important players 1st and do all the real work. China deserves most the 3rd party credit; the next super power... who is shrewd enough to become the unquestionable world power before the formal boasting begins.
I need a cheaper 8k curved monitor and if the suckers don't buy them I won't be able to buy them!
Think about it-- a curved 40" would make a great computer display. under 50" but over 40" - with more curve than the TVs currently have.
Actually, the ideal would be curved in both directions...
I'll probably just end up with 2 vertical displays with 4k each. it won't be good for some things (games/movies) but for work it will be great. curved probably needed... because at that height it's a bit of a problem.
MOST people would take advantage of a rich arrogant ignoramus who thinks they are better than everybody else and entitled to everything they were born into? The EU is doing just fine and will continue to do so whether or not the USA continues to play the fool.
Shale oil is lousy stuff and it's not that cost effective; the current situation is a result of Obama's regulations forcing the use of oil permits coupled with the now repealed Pelosi law forbidding export of US oil/gas. One can expect the market now to rise prices way before supplies dwindle. Nobody in their right mind makes serious national policy plans on shale; go educate yourself.
Everybody must EAT and the industry dominates rural areas with their disproportionate political power to the city factories.
They make it illegal to simply report about meat production or you are a terrorist, hell they got stuff into the Patriot Act!
There are always some intellectual whores who will sell their minds but the real thing to watch is the INSTITUTIONS who house these corrupt scientists. A think tank pimping out scientists is something to watch but a university or government research lab is where the pitchforks and ropes need to be brought out. The media needs to be taken to task for being lazy and constantly leaping at every PhD who is being pimped to them by shady groups and they NEED to instead be begging professors to take time out from grading to give an opinion (hell, pay them for their time which was more common in the past. A paid consultant is far better than a free professional whore for whatever industry PR firm pays their "think" tank tax write off... these things boomed in the 70s and legit academics hardly are seen on TV anymore.) think about it
The problem with trying to do any political experiments is that you have powerful forces at all levels working for their interests adding variables and trying to skew results. It's also almost always easier to break things than to keep them going or to fix them. So it's quite difficult to test anything without making it massive in scale and using broad averages to try to eliminate all the noise to get a trend line. Even so, there are always big external factors at play which can't be eliminated and the impact is hard to estimate; even if it is so huge that all reasonable adjustments show it's a huge success-- you are talking politics and the profession of lawyers and propagandists-- who's sole purpose is to argue a position regardless of TRUTH, reason, or common sense.
Right now, a lot of Libertards hate UBI because they fail to see it as a small government solution where the welfare is self-managed without supervision of the funds. It saves a great deal of money and reduces government greatly. They could be arguing from that angle and helping it along towards the closest thing they'll ever get to having their way. The problem with UBI approaching that is all the people who just blow their UBI on stupid shit and then end up destitute and looking for more handouts-- and you can't turn a blind eye because some many of them will get in your face... with crime etc. So you STILL end up with management in addition to the unmanaged welfare. Think of the US healthcare embarrassment, it's essentially a hybrid of mostly bad parts of everything... a minimal free support + minimal regulation + almost total anarchy free market exploitation.
human... possibly most existence is or has to be relative perspective.
The 1st world problems can feel just as severe and important to them as the 3rd world problems do to their people. Isolated, they won't ever be aware of what can happen outside of hypothetical fictional musings. Being aware does not put it into conscious thought all the time without reminders and your conscious mind has limitations on how many aspects it can deal with at a time.
For example, in the USA when it was 3rd world and quite barbaric (still left out of the history) they had a revolutionary war over less taxation and less representation than we have today; they also had less to lose by actually fighting and the majority were willing to harbor terrorists/traitors against the government while a minority of less 10% did the fighting until it was looking promising and even then probably only around 20% at peak. (please correct me if I'm not recollecting the numbers correctly; but remember the point is that a tiny group starts things and does the real hard work to build momentum where the majority of recruits who continue that momentum are often still not half the population. Passive and fickle is the majority... easily willing to praise successes and "join" them by word alone. )
Now is the time for nerds to promote and create open standard alternatives to monolithic exploitative corps like Facebook which only offer specific but popular desires of billions.
Twit feeds:
Clueless method to post anything for your followers. Facebook posts included EMAIL is not broadcast and blogs are too hard. We need something like a personal RSS feed that is easy to create. It's really a simple specialized blog system with no features. Define the protocols, APIs let others implement. like http, email etc.
People Finder: a way to find people you know and link to what they are publishing. like DNS but for humans. Facebook did this aggressively-- many approaches can be used by many places but we need a standard uniting the task. like DNS... and free... details such as harassing people by email or requiring signup to view things emailed to you by others.. can be left out for others.
Example: I've thought that some sort of RFC for EMAIL which creates an alternative mbox to INBOX ... a FRIEND directory with a limited MIME format email that goes into it would be a good idea. This would leverage existing tech, integrate easily with email since friend requests are similar but also would allow specialty use without even touching email use cases. Filtering can be specialized on the FRIEND box as well. NO, we don't just use email we optimize the use case to a special separate use of email technology that doesn't require any of the complexities of email. This is why I suggest another mbox to keep it away from INBOX. Apple does this very well with their notes and todo lists running on top of IMAP without users even realizing it is actually a kind of email client.
Public Identity service:
Email is unique and maybe those should be your ID... but we and the governments of the world really could use a unique public identifier standard; an open one as well as an authoritative one with some solid backing. No proof of identity or authentication but merely an ID. I've thought over this problem before as well. I'm thinking a base 52 encoded number comprising a serial number, a year, and a 1 character checksum (depends upon the numeric base.) This should be somewhat easy to memorize and share (due to encoding, which is where I spent most my thought... picking encoding character rules to avoid human errors. Such as not using O because it looks like 0. As well as an escape for indicating other formats like social security numbers (part of the checksum bit indicates alternative format) )
All the experienced should recognize the problem of over simplification of design often plaguing political systems and possibly the inability for the amateur programmers (corrupt or not) to grasp the issues involved.
repeat every census:
senators = max( 2, floor( state_population / lowest_state_population ) - 3 )
The concerns about a tyranny of the majority, the urban majorities enslaving the rural minorities they hardly interact with. It is a real problem and it plays out on a macro scale with the exploitation of rural nations (like the colonies; who were aware of this.)
The ERROR of the system is not the population vs geography split which people keep fighting over in extreme terms, it's the extreme simplification nearly everybody uses to think about it. If a programmer was working on such a problem they would debug themselves out of it with some if statements and multiple thresholds if not a simple equation... an AI would create a very complex function...
California deserves much MORE power because we are a democracy limiting them to just 2 senators is crazy. The amount of THEFT of $$$ and influence by the rural population is far greater than the KING was doing to the colonies. There needs to be multiple thresholds.. or an elegant equation. My example above is already better than what we have or has been suggested.