Yeah, you're right. Maybe it was the rise of SEO that messed it up and made things impossible to find in the noise. Or maybe people actually like the noise.
a new employee telling me I was crazy for having gotten a 1200-baud modem for my Commodore 64, his reason being that nobody can type faster than a 300-baud modem can handle
Wow, but you can definitely read faster than a 300 baud modem can handle........maybe your coworker was a slow reader.
the internet was not yet open for business. It had been built on dot-mil and dot-edu, on public funds. Programmers shared source code; if you needed something, someone gave it to you. A dot-com address was considered crass.
Just because Hitler comparison is used so often for its shock value, doesn't mean that it's never appropriate.
If there is a problem, then find some other historical parallel. If the only historical analogy someone can find is Hitler, then they are ignoramuses and should be reading books, not making comparisons.
I'm not sure what you mean by your Australian example. It sounds like one party found a way to win.
It's too late to optimise the upcoming election this year lol......I'm voting third party, but let's be honest, the third party candidates aren't much better than the mainstream candidates.
As long as voters are willing to vote for nincompoops, those are the kinds of candidates we'll get. A runoff system won't fix that (for evidence, see Australia).
Withholding money won't help them at all with their addiction, but it makes you feel self-righteous.
By turning a cold shoulder to them, you are not helping them.
Except through a very controlled process, it's hard to find those specific cases.
It seems so. The things to look for is whether they've been able to manage their own budget for the past few months (or years), and whether they've suddenly had a giant one-time payment. More research can be done in this area.
Homeless people have such miserable lives. The things you and I typically worry about would be like paradise for them, and on top of that they typically have a healthy dose of hopelessness. They know they are messed up. Here's what homeless people need: friendship, love, happiness.....maybe therapy.
In most cases, I'm not willing to give them friendship or love, so I give them a bit of cash so at least they can get a little bit of happiness (or deaden the pain, as it may be).
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If I had a penny for every slashdot article about batteries since the late 90s, I'd...
Have enough to buy a 4000 mAh mobile battery?
Yeah, you're right. Maybe it was the rise of SEO that messed it up and made things impossible to find in the noise. Or maybe people actually like the noise.
a new employee telling me I was crazy for having gotten a 1200-baud modem for my Commodore 64, his reason being that nobody can type faster than a 300-baud modem can handle
Wow, but you can definitely read faster than a 300 baud modem can handle........maybe your coworker was a slow reader.
the internet was not yet open for business. It had been built on dot-mil and dot-edu, on public funds. Programmers shared source code; if you needed something, someone gave it to you. A dot-com address was considered crass.
The internet was better then.
Is there something special about Hitler in particular?
Yes, people who can't think of any analogy other than Hitler are ignoramuses, every one.
Just because Hitler comparison is used so often for its shock value, doesn't mean that it's never appropriate.
If there is a problem, then find some other historical parallel. If the only historical analogy someone can find is Hitler, then they are ignoramuses and should be reading books, not making comparisons.
Yeah, it's corrupt. The whole city of San Francisco is as corrupt as the cesspools on market street. Former Mayor Willie Brown was paid to cover this problem up. Ed Lee (the current mayor) is extremely unpopular among the citizens, got appointed to that office initially. The state senator from the area was convicted of gun running! Notably he favored gun control laws, I guess he wanted to get rid of the competition. Another guy was demanding "protection" money.
That's just the surface, the ones who've been caught. I don't know how deep it goes, but it definitely extends into the police department.
Bacterial life appeared on this planet basically the instant asteroids stopped bombarding the planet.
How on earth can we know that? (Serious question)
Still need the thorn....... It doesn't even work with the appropriate html tag.
I'm not sure what you mean by your Australian example. It sounds like one party found a way to win.
It's too late to optimise the upcoming election this year lol......I'm voting third party, but let's be honest, the third party candidates aren't much better than the mainstream candidates.
It'd be harder to gerrymander a decisive party advantage without winning the popular vote too.
If people didn't blindly vote based on party, gerrymandering wouldn't work.
Not in a single election, but over time politicians notice what traits provide winning candidates and optimize for it.
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How do you keep them from destroying your house or stealing from you?
It's not the voters' fault.
As long as voters are willing to vote for nincompoops, those are the kinds of candidates we'll get. A runoff system won't fix that (for evidence, see Australia).
Consistently refusing to vote for idiots.
Does Modafinil deaden your pain? These homeless people have a lot of it.......
I think Trump supporters and MRAs have a pretty high overlap
Really? Is that true?
Which in turn reminds me of this. The internet is magic.
The system can never be better than the voters themselves.
If it makes you feel better, he might just have an aid that he tells to post things.......
I would ASK the person what they NEED
Have you ever done that?
Withholding money won't help them at all with their addiction, but it makes you feel self-righteous.
By turning a cold shoulder to them, you are not helping them.
Except through a very controlled process, it's hard to find those specific cases.
It seems so. The things to look for is whether they've been able to manage their own budget for the past few months (or years), and whether they've suddenly had a giant one-time payment. More research can be done in this area.
Homeless people have such miserable lives. The things you and I typically worry about would be like paradise for them, and on top of that they typically have a healthy dose of hopelessness. They know they are messed up. Here's what homeless people need: friendship, love, happiness.....maybe therapy.
In most cases, I'm not willing to give them friendship or love, so I give them a bit of cash so at least they can get a little bit of happiness (or deaden the pain, as it may be).