Welcome to the progressive wet dream. Home ownership is for the 1% only (and optional). The rest get to live in shared housing, tied to it by monthly rent that is just high enough to ensure they can't accumulate wealth, and just low enough to ensure that anyone can get a 12x12 ft box for themselves. You don't need a bathroom - you can share. You certainly don't need a kitchen - you won't be doing any cooking of your own. And you surely don't need a garage because you'll use public transportation, or god forbid rent once in a while. Everything is disposable... and you're dependent on your betters for every aspect of your life. You won't even have a job of your own - you'll get free money from the government.
Kids these days no longer see the point in owning a house or car. They value _different_ things -- they are slowing growing up from valuing physical things (materials) to meta-physical things (relationships).
Greed is slowly going away.
That's only because other people have provided you with far more than basic necessities. If you actually had to work for a living, or worse yet - had to compete with others for limited resources, you'd redevelop the concept of "owning a house" pretty fucking quickly. Your opinion is borne of decadence and decay... and if it truly takes hold it will snuff out humanity faster than you can imagine.
I actually see it rather prominently done on the other side. Pretty much every video of every channel that's dedicated to firearms sports is immediately demonetized... no matter how tame, apolitical, or polite it is.
Considering that independent testing has generally placed them at or near the top of world antivirus companies and their software does so without being slow or intrusive, I think it may actually be safer to place your trust in them, being a US citizen, than to trust the American companies that are beholden to the NSA and the like. Frankly, there is nothing useful that Russia can gain from a backdoor to my computer. On the other hand, I fully expect NSA to be compiling list of undesirable persons based on race, religion, desire for digital security and privacy, software used, and most importantly - political affiliations. They are not going to make a mistake again at the next presidential election and let it actually proceed unmolested domestically. Next time the appropriate winner will be assured.
Always found this to be an illogical and frankly dumb point of view, because somehow you think that in a world where the society has collapsed enough to worry about "someone with more guns and henchmen", you are somehow safer without a weapon. I think history pretty much says you're full of shit. I can't think of any chaotic time or circumstance when someone thought "I wish I were more defenseless."
Does this mean our political strategy will become twice as complex? With the nuance of the modern world, don't you think 140 characters should be enough to express any opinion on any issue? Many people apparently do.
I actually think this is one area where they listened to their customers AND were able to cut costs. Why did they spend money to alter the interface a la Samsung and wind up with an non-updatable mess. Samsung does it to fuck the customer into upgrades.
It is a lie because these numbers are used to support a false narrative that the economy is getting better under current management. This is the same statistical trick used in the U.S. over the preceding years in order to convince the public that we have recovered from the recession of the housing bubble.
It is also a lie because the UK has been using similar tricks to pad their crime figures, for instance, in order to support the idea that increasing surveillance and complete emasculation of the population lead to less crime.
It is a lie because these figures are published in the media, and used by the government to create a false impression for the population. It's the intent TO LIE that makes it A LIE.
If anyone voted for Trump, must be cause they're stupid racist and bought by Russia. If anyone speaks against your party line, it's because they're a Russian agent.
So it's either a Democrat opinion or it's not real or malicious. One party system is great, eh comrade?
By the way, tell me what's better for Russia as an enemy of the US - one favorable president or a society that eats itself to the point of destruction?
I cannot support the current administration. But the amount of doublespeak I hear regarding Russia's "influence" on the last elections from Democrat mouths and their mouthpieces like CNN, WashPo, and NYT is simply astounding. They are both claiming that they only talk about influence rather than an actual conspiracy; and trying very hard to make every article imply that there's a full blown Manchurian candidate conspiracy... sometimes in the same paragraph. As a result the public perception is that Russia was literally responsible for the results of the least election... effectively rendering irrelevant the American voices of those who voted. Undoubtedly that's the actual intent, conscious or not.
Finally let's consider Russia's position here, as well as our indignant stand of faux moral superiority. It's ok for us to topple numerous governments militarily or with outright financial support of the opposition... it's ok for us to start a civil war between Russia and it's closest neighbor culturally and politically for the past 1000 years, by supporting violent racists who aim to persecute a large percent of their population. But if Russia expresses support for a presidential candidate who thought a different diplomatic approach would be more fruitful after the disastrous foreign policy of the last 8 years (or so they thought), we all shake our heads in disbelief "how dare they". Has this country regressed into childhood this much?
What's good for the goose...
If we are so weak, we should regrow some balls, or we'll shortly be gone.
Agreed. Say instead that such technology would decrease the number of things radiologists miss, allowing them to spend more time on comparisons and differential diagnosis... the things people actually hire them to do.
Doctors and nurses account for less than 10% of healthcare costs put together. But I agree with you, I think YOUR doctors should be replaced with Google as quickly as possible.
As an intensivist at a top 10 hospital, I'll tell you that either you are a) trolling or b) yourself, your radiologists or both are incompetent. I speak to radiologists on a daily basis... and value their opinions.
I'm uncertain why you feel the need to be so patronizing. Being unarmed is not a virtue. NOT carrying a gun doesn't make you a better human being any more than carrying it makes me one. I'm lucky to have a choice in this matter.
I'm sorry you live in a society where breaking your hand caused people to take away your gun(s). Surely you weren't any more a threat to society after that accident than before. I think you should feel sorry for that as well. If you don't understand why you should feel sorry - I'm sorry - you'll realize at some point... and you may be sorry.
It's a different philosophy. I am not sure why people have so much trouble accepting that.
Some people want to be more self-reliant, and do not accept the progressive ethos of being dependent on the state for everything from cradle to grave. It's not that his risk is higher than yours, it's that he feels that the added amount of potential control over a bad situation warrants the "hassle".
I carry a full-on trauma kit in my car, with airway supplies, massive hemorrhage equipment, IV supplies and emergency drugs in my car. Also a fire extinguisher. My chances of needing that are no higher than anyone else... and it's expensive and a hassle. But it affords me a degree of control that someone who doesn't pack that stuff does not have.
Same goes for a gun. And please don't quote me the bullshit "you have a higher chance... with your own gun". That "study" combined all the accidents and suicides and drew irrelevant conclusions from even worse data.
Come on. This way the warrants write themselves... And come straight with a confession. It'll be Christmas day for the DHS and the FBI. Maximum arrests... minimum effort.
Why in the world would you be using a 3rd party service? Putting together a Synology box is trivial, and it can back up to most cloud services with client-side encryption. You get storage space that's limited only by your hard drive space and the freedom and security of your own cloud service.
I happen to both like driving AND like the option of having the car take over if I'm tired etc.
Cars are a unique instrument because of the degree of freedom they provide. My big concern is that the advent of self-driving cars will be used by the state to heavily infringe on those freedoms.
My sense is that within months of approval of this technology for mass market use, it will become mandatory, and within a few years after that havens of the nanny state will prohibit humans from driving.
All in the name of public safety of course. The cars will be monitored, tracked, and subject to stop on order from advice at any time.
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Welcome to the progressive wet dream. Home ownership is for the 1% only (and optional). The rest get to live in shared housing, tied to it by monthly rent that is just high enough to ensure they can't accumulate wealth, and just low enough to ensure that anyone can get a 12x12 ft box for themselves. You don't need a bathroom - you can share. You certainly don't need a kitchen - you won't be doing any cooking of your own. And you surely don't need a garage because you'll use public transportation, or god forbid rent once in a while. Everything is disposable... and you're dependent on your betters for every aspect of your life. You won't even have a job of your own - you'll get free money from the government.
That's only because other people have provided you with far more than basic necessities. If you actually had to work for a living, or worse yet - had to compete with others for limited resources, you'd redevelop the concept of "owning a house" pretty fucking quickly. Your opinion is borne of decadence and decay... and if it truly takes hold it will snuff out humanity faster than you can imagine.
I actually see it rather prominently done on the other side. Pretty much every video of every channel that's dedicated to firearms sports is immediately demonetized... no matter how tame, apolitical, or polite it is.
Considering that independent testing has generally placed them at or near the top of world antivirus companies and their software does so without being slow or intrusive, I think it may actually be safer to place your trust in them, being a US citizen, than to trust the American companies that are beholden to the NSA and the like. Frankly, there is nothing useful that Russia can gain from a backdoor to my computer. On the other hand, I fully expect NSA to be compiling list of undesirable persons based on race, religion, desire for digital security and privacy, software used, and most importantly - political affiliations. They are not going to make a mistake again at the next presidential election and let it actually proceed unmolested domestically. Next time the appropriate winner will be assured.
Always found this to be an illogical and frankly dumb point of view, because somehow you think that in a world where the society has collapsed enough to worry about "someone with more guns and henchmen", you are somehow safer without a weapon. I think history pretty much says you're full of shit. I can't think of any chaotic time or circumstance when someone thought "I wish I were more defenseless."
Does this mean our political strategy will become twice as complex? With the nuance of the modern world, don't you think 140 characters should be enough to express any opinion on any issue? Many people apparently do.
It's a terrible study, having read the actual paper. Statistical fishing.
I actually think this is one area where they listened to their customers AND were able to cut costs. Why did they spend money to alter the interface a la Samsung and wind up with an non-updatable mess. Samsung does it to fuck the customer into upgrades.
It is a lie because these numbers are used to support a false narrative that the economy is getting better under current management. This is the same statistical trick used in the U.S. over the preceding years in order to convince the public that we have recovered from the recession of the housing bubble.
It is also a lie because the UK has been using similar tricks to pad their crime figures, for instance, in order to support the idea that increasing surveillance and complete emasculation of the population lead to less crime.
It is a lie because these figures are published in the media, and used by the government to create a false impression for the population. It's the intent TO LIE that makes it A LIE.
It's a weapon of war. It's not supposed to be 100% safe. How soft can you get? Maybe we should bomb our enemies with loads of kittens?!
Encryption back doors.
Hardware surveillance code.
Any other questions?
I wasn't born in the US and was trying to correct the typical American ignorance about the geopolitics of the regions we interfere in.
Good one troll.
If anyone voted for Trump, must be cause they're stupid racist and bought by Russia.
If anyone speaks against your party line, it's because they're a Russian agent.
So it's either a Democrat opinion or it's not real or malicious. One party system is great, eh comrade?
By the way, tell me what's better for Russia as an enemy of the US - one favorable president or a society that eats itself to the point of destruction?
I cannot support the current administration. But the amount of doublespeak I hear regarding Russia's "influence" on the last elections from Democrat mouths and their mouthpieces like CNN, WashPo, and NYT is simply astounding. They are both claiming that they only talk about influence rather than an actual conspiracy; and trying very hard to make every article imply that there's a full blown Manchurian candidate conspiracy... sometimes in the same paragraph. As a result the public perception is that Russia was literally responsible for the results of the least election... effectively rendering irrelevant the American voices of those who voted. Undoubtedly that's the actual intent, conscious or not.
Finally let's consider Russia's position here, as well as our indignant stand of faux moral superiority. It's ok for us to topple numerous governments militarily or with outright financial support of the opposition... it's ok for us to start a civil war between Russia and it's closest neighbor culturally and politically for the past 1000 years, by supporting violent racists who aim to persecute a large percent of their population. But if Russia expresses support for a presidential candidate who thought a different diplomatic approach would be more fruitful after the disastrous foreign policy of the last 8 years (or so they thought), we all shake our heads in disbelief "how dare they". Has this country regressed into childhood this much?
What's good for the goose...
If we are so weak, we should regrow some balls, or we'll shortly be gone.
Agreed. Say instead that such technology would decrease the number of things radiologists miss, allowing them to spend more time on comparisons and differential diagnosis... the things people actually hire them to do.
Doctors and nurses account for less than 10% of healthcare costs put together. But I agree with you, I think YOUR doctors should be replaced with Google as quickly as possible.
As an intensivist at a top 10 hospital, I'll tell you that either you are a) trolling or b) yourself, your radiologists or both are incompetent. I speak to radiologists on a daily basis... and value their opinions.
I'm uncertain why you feel the need to be so patronizing. Being unarmed is not a virtue. NOT carrying a gun doesn't make you a better human being any more than carrying it makes me one. I'm lucky to have a choice in this matter.
I'm sorry you live in a society where breaking your hand caused people to take away your gun(s). Surely you weren't any more a threat to society after that accident than before. I think you should feel sorry for that as well. If you don't understand why you should feel sorry - I'm sorry - you'll realize at some point... and you may be sorry.
It's a different philosophy.
I am not sure why people have so much trouble accepting that.
Some people want to be more self-reliant, and do not accept the progressive ethos of being dependent on the state for everything from cradle to grave. It's not that his risk is higher than yours, it's that he feels that the added amount of potential control over a bad situation warrants the "hassle".
I carry a full-on trauma kit in my car, with airway supplies, massive hemorrhage equipment, IV supplies and emergency drugs in my car. Also a fire extinguisher. My chances of needing that are no higher than anyone else... and it's expensive and a hassle. But it affords me a degree of control that someone who doesn't pack that stuff does not have.
Same goes for a gun. And please don't quote me the bullshit "you have a higher chance... with your own gun". That "study" combined all the accidents and suicides and drew irrelevant conclusions from even worse data.
Come on. This way the warrants write themselves... And come straight with a confession. It'll be Christmas day for the DHS and the FBI. Maximum arrests... minimum effort.
I'm looking for more input of highly technical details, suggestions, and criticisms from dilletantes.
Why in the world would you be using a 3rd party service? Putting together a Synology box is trivial, and it can back up to most cloud services with client-side encryption. You get storage space that's limited only by your hard drive space and the freedom and security of your own cloud service.
Start with yourself or shut the fuck up.
If everyone who thinks there are too many people commits suicide, the roads will get less congested.
I happen to both like driving AND like the option of having the car take over if I'm tired etc.
Cars are a unique instrument because of the degree of freedom they provide. My big concern is that the advent of self-driving cars will be used by the state to heavily infringe on those freedoms.
My sense is that within months of approval of this technology for mass market use, it will become mandatory, and within a few years after that havens of the nanny state will prohibit humans from driving.
All in the name of public safety of course. The cars will be monitored, tracked, and subject to stop on order from advice at any time.
Tell me this isn't the future.
10 hour days? Clearly you haven't met a medical or surgical resident. 10 hour work day would be a vacation.