This sort of problem can be solved by figuring out what management really wants. Since they are human, they will often fail at being able to explain it, so you have to ask yourself questions like, "Why did they ask that question? What do they really want?" Sometimes it's as simple as giving them daily status updates. If that's all it takes to make them happy, then I am happy to do it, even if it's utterly a waste of time. Making people happy is ok.
Or in your case, you only believe the study if you already agree with it. If a study comes out saying that climate models are wrong, you will try to explain it away. Or in the example of this article, where they say "we don't know what is causing this, but we should try to stop global warming anyway."
The reasons US life expectancy is lower are not much related to the health care system unless you think drug overdose, suicide, car accidents, etc. are failures of the health care system.
You can either educate yourself and learn the truth, or continue following your beliefs because they agree with your political views. Which will you choose?
It must be said that anyone who believes every science study that comes out without question is a member of the church of scientism, without understanding.
Also, every government expense is basically a rounding error next to Medicare, SS, and the military. You could completely get rid of the postal service, get rid of every other inefficiency in government, and it would make very little difference in the overall budget (especially the growing deficit). People argue very emotionally about this topic but it's not really worth getting emotional about.
That's a nice, pithy statement, but it's not really accurate. For example, it's possible to throw bricks through my living room window but so far that hasn't been used against me.
Is there any company that actually uses browser fingerprinting? I haven't seen it used anywhere (but obv that doesn't mean it's unused). Other methods are still too practical, and easier to work with.
Basically they are worried that other companies (proton mail) are gaining marketshare by having this feature. It's not about whether the feature works, it's about whether they can click the 'feature' checkbox.
Personally, I wish they'd raise taxes and more to the point REDUCE SPENDING
Not going to happen. Why? Anyone who raises taxes will get voted out of office. Anyone who cuts benefits will get voted out of office. That's why Obama signed a bill making the Bush tax cuts permanent, and the Republicans haven't been able to repeal the ACA.
The short is that we're going to keep cutting taxes and increasing benefits until the country is bankrupt. There's no real way out of it because it's what the voters want, and are willing to vote for (complaining the whole time, of course, and blaming the other party continually).
Eh, the left opposes war until a Democratic president starts the war (Obama in Libya, Clinton in the Balkans. Even Bernie Sanders supported that one). The right opposes war until a Republican president starts one (Bush Bush, but again, they opposed Libya and Balkans). Hillary hugely favored using military power.
The other stuff is reasonable, but the Democratic party is still trying to find an issue (or set of issues) that will help them win the next election. I don't know what issues those will be.
You affirmed the point of the post you were replying to. Then you went into the details of why that post was true. You didn't address his main point though, which was that the current state of affairs is pathetic.
Considering that Google originally became famous for having a web page that was mostly white space (and it was a good thing, too), you shouldn't be surprised.
Cyberbullying....does that mean they found your IP, hacked your computer, put illegal media on it and called the cops? Does that mean they sent you a ping of death (or similar) knocking you offline?
Oh, it just means "someone said mean things?" Wow, sounds awful, we should make a law against that.
Games are an example of software that doesn't usually get updated, but you still want them to keep working.
Frankly I wish programmers like you (who don't have respect for backwards compatibility) would crawl into a ditch and die, but I don't get everything I want in this world.
Apple completely sucks donkey balls on their backwards compatibility policies, but they've been this way for years. If you bought Macintosh software expecting it to still work three years later, it's your own stupid fault.
Apple doesn't make their software backwards compatible. Don't commit to their platform. You can't eve say they are screwing you because they are clear about it in advance.
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This sort of problem can be solved by figuring out what management really wants. Since they are human, they will often fail at being able to explain it, so you have to ask yourself questions like, "Why did they ask that question? What do they really want?" Sometimes it's as simple as giving them daily status updates. If that's all it takes to make them happy, then I am happy to do it, even if it's utterly a waste of time. Making people happy is ok.
Or in your case, you only believe the study if you already agree with it. If a study comes out saying that climate models are wrong, you will try to explain it away. Or in the example of this article, where they say "we don't know what is causing this, but we should try to stop global warming anyway."
The reasons US life expectancy is lower are not much related to the health care system unless you think drug overdose, suicide, car accidents, etc. are failures of the health care system.
You can either educate yourself and learn the truth, or continue following your beliefs because they agree with your political views. Which will you choose?
It must be said that anyone who believes every science study that comes out without question is a member of the church of scientism, without understanding.
WSJ still puts out good stuff, and so does the nyt, especially on topics other than politics.
Your last paragraph is exactly why America will go bankrupt. Even if they had a 10 trillion surplus, they would find a way to go bankrupt anyway.
Also, every government expense is basically a rounding error next to Medicare, SS, and the military. You could completely get rid of the postal service, get rid of every other inefficiency in government, and it would make very little difference in the overall budget (especially the growing deficit). People argue very emotionally about this topic but it's not really worth getting emotional about.
That's a nice, pithy statement, but it's not really accurate. For example, it's possible to throw bricks through my living room window but so far that hasn't been used against me.
Everyone should be entitled no to be searchable from a search engine.
I would really like to see you give some justification (or support) for this assertion.
Is there any company that actually uses browser fingerprinting? I haven't seen it used anywhere (but obv that doesn't mean it's unused). Other methods are still too practical, and easier to work with.
Basically they are worried that other companies (proton mail) are gaining marketshare by having this feature. It's not about whether the feature works, it's about whether they can click the 'feature' checkbox.
Personally, I wish they'd raise taxes and more to the point REDUCE SPENDING
Not going to happen. Why? Anyone who raises taxes will get voted out of office. Anyone who cuts benefits will get voted out of office. That's why Obama signed a bill making the Bush tax cuts permanent, and the Republicans haven't been able to repeal the ACA.
The short is that we're going to keep cutting taxes and increasing benefits until the country is bankrupt. There's no real way out of it because it's what the voters want, and are willing to vote for (complaining the whole time, of course, and blaming the other party continually).
b. End the wars.
Eh, the left opposes war until a Democratic president starts the war (Obama in Libya, Clinton in the Balkans. Even Bernie Sanders supported that one). The right opposes war until a Republican president starts one (Bush Bush, but again, they opposed Libya and Balkans). Hillary hugely favored using military power.
The other stuff is reasonable, but the Democratic party is still trying to find an issue (or set of issues) that will help them win the next election. I don't know what issues those will be.
You affirmed the point of the post you were replying to. Then you went into the details of why that post was true. You didn't address his main point though, which was that the current state of affairs is pathetic.
That sounds awful! We should make a law against it.
Considering that Google originally became famous for having a web page that was mostly white space (and it was a good thing, too), you shouldn't be surprised.
I understand your point, but I don't really expect email to work unless it's connected to the internet anyway.
Cyberbullying....does that mean they found your IP, hacked your computer, put illegal media on it and called the cops? Does that mean they sent you a ping of death (or similar) knocking you offline?
Oh, it just means "someone said mean things?" Wow, sounds awful, we should make a law against that.
Or Linux. Linux backwards compatibility is good, and wine runs all the games I use, at least.
I truly admire your originality. Your power of creativity must have been granted to you by the devil himself. Quite the way with words you have there.
Games are an example of software that doesn't usually get updated, but you still want them to keep working.
Frankly I wish programmers like you (who don't have respect for backwards compatibility) would crawl into a ditch and die, but I don't get everything I want in this world.
I lost access to so many of my older games when they killed Rosetta
Yeah that was super annoying and rude.
I'm about to lose a lot more when Apple kills off 32 bit.
OK, that's your own fault, you should have known to not trust Apple backwards compatibility by now.
Apple completely sucks donkey balls on their backwards compatibility policies, but they've been this way for years. If you bought Macintosh software expecting it to still work three years later, it's your own stupid fault.
Apple doesn't make their software backwards compatible. Don't commit to their platform. You can't eve say they are screwing you because they are clear about it in advance.
Yeah I should go look.
Oh, you are an emotional partisan, too. What was Trump ever convicted of?