Interesting reference to Godwin's Law. It was fun to read the wikipedia page. I never made this comparison before in my life. You don't have to believe me. But in case of Edwards, it is simply warranted. Not because he shares Hitler's goals, but because he shares his use of the appeal to the nihilism of those who (for reasons of bad luck or bad intentions) have not succeeded in life. He appeals to the forces of nihilism to propel himself into power. A candidate that stood for so little other than his own ambitions has not occurred at any point during the 20th century in America. I am not intimately familiar with politics of previous centuries so I won't make statements about it. But the fact that this man has a voice in modern American history is dark, dark moment. That being said, I'll agree that Guiliani detests civil liberties. I was afraid of NYC cops in the 90's even as a white guy. Black guys on the trains openly expressed fears of getting locked up for nothing -- not with a sense of victimhood by with a sense of true fear -- I remember. But Guiliani's intentions were to create order (arguably so were the Palpatine's, but there goes Godwin's Law again). Edwards, however, is all too clearly motivated by nothing but personal ambitions.
Before I agree with the "no one assessment", I'll wait until I can read "The Assault on Reason" by Al Gore. He just might be the guy. He is certainly the best informed on all the nerd issues.
Corporate America employs or enables employment of most of the nerds. So how's corporate America bad for nerds? Granted, it's better for MBAs and lawyers, but it's still pretty damn good for nerds.
Wow, so rarely does a man rise up to a position so high and yet deserve the title of pure evil. I have never seen a politician who deserves the name more than Edwards. He is a demagogue who wants to rally the poor against the middle class. Before you protest that he is rallying them against the rich, just remember that in today's world the rich can just leave. They are no longer tied to this country by almost anything. Edwards is the single force speaking for the rising tide of nihilism in this country. He is the modern day Hitler.
I've been saying for a long time now that slashdot (despite the wide spectrum of philosophies and voting practices of its readers) is becoming a political party. Let's face, we do have a common interest that is largely influenced by politics. America never had a united technocrats party before. You might be witnessing its emergence.
If you ever spend any time in a mid-size development shop in the 90's you'd know that most people referred to the bandwidth as the size of the pipe. So he said "tubes" instead of "pipes". I'd say that makes him as informed as a politician gets.
No, not quite. He is the only one informed. And there he is never been an entitlements candidate. Sure, every democrat has to sell his sole during primaries. But he is clearly not doing that. So as a president (if something incredible happened and he was *asked* to run) he might just what's best for the country. And that's promoting progress. He'd be good for nerds.
How many journalists quit in post-911 self-imposed editor censorship? Is this what the world has come to? Russian journalists have more ethics than ours?
Actually, people who make general statements don't necessarily need to prove them. They may be stating their general observations. The "gut feeling" that they developed through the experience of being themselves. This does not prove anything beyond a reasonable doubt. But no one is on trial here. No one is fighting for their freedom to stay out of jail. These assertions are simply meant as suggestions to generate and prolong a discussion. It is quite ludicrous to demand that statements made during an informal discussion rise to the same level of verifiability as those made (let's say) in a court of law. If that were the case no new ideas could ever be put forward for discussion.
Having said that, I am confident that your statement that "you are not convinced" was made as a refutal. And I was simply pointing out that it doesn't server as such.
Sorry, but
I fail to see does not actually prove your point. Without starting a whole discussion about whether it is possible or not to prove a negative, the most that this phrase means is that you are not convinced. It does not show that the other side is wrong in any way.
Shouldn't this story have a Monty Python icon? As in "I always wanted to be a judge, but they are very rigorous on a judge exam. The problem with being a miner is that once you are too old and too stupid to be a miner, they don't want you anymore. The opposite is true of a judge." This is is probably paraphrasing of Monty Python too much, but it does seem to prove the point.
Since the site's purpose is clearly to find roommates and not tenants, you should have more latitude in what kind of questions you can ask. When you accept a roommate, you do much more than engage in landlord/tenant relationship. Finding a roommate is a process of creating a household. And anyone should be able to choose what kind of household they live in.
Because it is wiki, any initial story that is written in too esoteric terms can be further edited by people less in the know and more able to eloquently explain. So by the very nature of the media is better than either peer-reviewed or popular scientific literature in terms of how well the content gets distributed. How well the inaccuracies get caught is a whole different ball game.
Sharpton is personally responsible for at least a dozen ruined lives or murders. He's organized riots that brought deaths and ends of careers of innocent people.
I see you are having fun with this. So I'll humor you half-way. Russian economic system is currently widely recognized as "cleptocracy". This is not an insult of any one individual (even less so of 150,000,000 people as you suggest) as much as characterization of an economic system for what it is. Where did get from the fact that I know approximate cost of faking a passport that either I or anyone I know has ever tried it, I don't know. BTW, I also know approximately what is involved in writting a computer virus. By your rational that would mean that I and my imaginary associates are a gang actively involved in wrirting and distributing computer viruses. There was a previous post about the good old Russian paranoia. I seriously doubt that you are acting paranoid. You are trying to spread fud and make it look like paranoia. But go ahead accuse me of being violent, terroristic, criminal, etc. just because you don't like the statements I make. To steal an old Russian joke, at some point during the argument make sure to ask for the guy's papers and receits.
Indeed my accounts are based on rumors. But the sources of the rumors are personal accoutns -- not something I read on the internet. The rest of your response seems rather hostile. I don'q quite get the source of hostility. I personally don't care to get a Russian passport or to even visit Russia. But I know people who do visit it and who have come across people with odd personal accounts. I seriosly doubt that the CIA is interested in anything that a slashdot user has to say. I also don't quite see how faking a Russian passport is a terrorist activity. First and foremost it is usually a business endeavor. Since all government in Russia is based on bribery, this is just how things are done there.
Well, in modern Russia bribery is the only way of doing business with the government. Period. On ANY (including the highest) level. This is not even a cynical view. It's just how it is. Given this and the fact that it takes less money to get a fake Russian passport (under $200) than to bribe an official to get a real one (about $500), this just increases the registration cost for any foreigner wishing to get a domain.ru
All the "long enough" arguments are moot when it comes to evolution. Because the process is random it is entirely possible for singular events to occur that expedite the change and force to occur over a very short period of time. The argument that genetic variation occured in few early settlers actually supports the claim that vitamin D had a role. Because having paler skin allowed these "freaks" to have stronger bones (vitamin D is used mainly for bone development of children). This, in turn, would obviously allow them to overwhelm their less pale neighbors.
Well, if you ever walk into a university, you'll know that partial derivatives are beyond most business majors. So you can't expect them to try to find extrema points when multiple variables are involved. They need a "damn computer" to do it. This, of course, begs the question "is this really news?"
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Interesting reference to Godwin's Law. It was fun to read the wikipedia page. I never made this comparison before in my life. You don't have to believe me. But in case of Edwards, it is simply warranted. Not because he shares Hitler's goals, but because he shares his use of the appeal to the nihilism of those who (for reasons of bad luck or bad intentions) have not succeeded in life. He appeals to the forces of nihilism to propel himself into power. A candidate that stood for so little other than his own ambitions has not occurred at any point during the 20th century in America. I am not intimately familiar with politics of previous centuries so I won't make statements about it. But the fact that this man has a voice in modern American history is dark, dark moment. That being said, I'll agree that Guiliani detests civil liberties. I was afraid of NYC cops in the 90's even as a white guy. Black guys on the trains openly expressed fears of getting locked up for nothing -- not with a sense of victimhood by with a sense of true fear -- I remember. But Guiliani's intentions were to create order (arguably so were the Palpatine's, but there goes Godwin's Law again). Edwards, however, is all too clearly motivated by nothing but personal ambitions.
Before I agree with the "no one assessment", I'll wait until I can read "The Assault on Reason" by Al Gore. He just might be the guy. He is certainly the best informed on all the nerd issues.
To have enemies who argue the way you do makes me proud of being me.
Corporate America employs or enables employment of most of the nerds. So how's corporate America bad for nerds? Granted, it's better for MBAs and lawyers, but it's still pretty damn good for nerds.
One could argue that we had the strongest economy because the industrial capacity of the continent who had it before us was destroyed during WWII.
Wow, so rarely does a man rise up to a position so high and yet deserve the title of pure evil. I have never seen a politician who deserves the name more than Edwards. He is a demagogue who wants to rally the poor against the middle class. Before you protest that he is rallying them against the rich, just remember that in today's world the rich can just leave. They are no longer tied to this country by almost anything. Edwards is the single force speaking for the rising tide of nihilism in this country. He is the modern day Hitler.
I've been saying for a long time now that slashdot (despite the wide spectrum of philosophies and voting practices of its readers) is becoming a political party. Let's face, we do have a common interest that is largely influenced by politics. America never had a united technocrats party before. You might be witnessing its emergence.
If you ever spend any time in a mid-size development shop in the 90's you'd know that most people referred to the bandwidth as the size of the pipe. So he said "tubes" instead of "pipes". I'd say that makes him as informed as a politician gets.
No, not quite. He is the only one informed. And there he is never been an entitlements candidate. Sure, every democrat has to sell his sole during primaries. But he is clearly not doing that. So as a president (if something incredible happened and he was *asked* to run) he might just what's best for the country. And that's promoting progress. He'd be good for nerds.
So now it's not to be trusted?
boooooring. thank god i beat that addiction. all it took was a divorce. phew... i got off easy.
How many journalists quit in post-911 self-imposed editor censorship? Is this what the world has come to? Russian journalists have more ethics than ours?
Actually, people who make general statements don't necessarily need to prove them. They may be stating their general observations. The "gut feeling" that they developed through the experience of being themselves. This does not prove anything beyond a reasonable doubt. But no one is on trial here. No one is fighting for their freedom to stay out of jail. These assertions are simply meant as suggestions to generate and prolong a discussion. It is quite ludicrous to demand that statements made during an informal discussion rise to the same level of verifiability as those made (let's say) in a court of law. If that were the case no new ideas could ever be put forward for discussion.
Having said that, I am confident that your statement that "you are not convinced" was made as a refutal. And I was simply pointing out that it doesn't server as such.
Shouldn't this story have a Monty Python icon? As in "I always wanted to be a judge, but they are very rigorous on a judge exam. The problem with being a miner is that once you are too old and too stupid to be a miner, they don't want you anymore. The opposite is true of a judge." This is is probably paraphrasing of Monty Python too much, but it does seem to prove the point.
Since the site's purpose is clearly to find roommates and not tenants, you should have more latitude in what kind of questions you can ask. When you accept a roommate, you do much more than engage in landlord/tenant relationship. Finding a roommate is a process of creating a household. And anyone should be able to choose what kind of household they live in.
Because it is wiki, any initial story that is written in too esoteric terms can be further edited by people less in the know and more able to eloquently explain. So by the very nature of the media is better than either peer-reviewed or popular scientific literature in terms of how well the content gets distributed. How well the inaccuracies get caught is a whole different ball game.
Sharpton is personally responsible for at least a dozen ruined lives or murders. He's organized riots that brought deaths and ends of careers of innocent people.
I've maintained for a while now that slashdot is emerging as the "technocracy party". Now mainstream is realizing.
I see you are having fun with this. So I'll humor you half-way. Russian economic system is currently widely recognized as "cleptocracy". This is not an insult of any one individual (even less so of 150,000,000 people as you suggest) as much as characterization of an economic system for what it is. Where did get from the fact that I know approximate cost of faking a passport that either I or anyone I know has ever tried it, I don't know. BTW, I also know approximately what is involved in writting a computer virus. By your rational that would mean that I and my imaginary associates are a gang actively involved in wrirting and distributing computer viruses. There was a previous post about the good old Russian paranoia. I seriously doubt that you are acting paranoid. You are trying to spread fud and make it look like paranoia. But go ahead accuse me of being violent, terroristic, criminal, etc. just because you don't like the statements I make. To steal an old Russian joke, at some point during the argument make sure to ask for the guy's papers and receits.
Indeed my accounts are based on rumors. But the sources of the rumors are personal accoutns -- not something I read on the internet. The rest of your response seems rather hostile. I don'q quite get the source of hostility. I personally don't care to get a Russian passport or to even visit Russia. But I know people who do visit it and who have come across people with odd personal accounts. I seriosly doubt that the CIA is interested in anything that a slashdot user has to say. I also don't quite see how faking a Russian passport is a terrorist activity. First and foremost it is usually a business endeavor. Since all government in Russia is based on bribery, this is just how things are done there.
Well, in modern Russia bribery is the only way of doing business with the government. Period. On ANY (including the highest) level. This is not even a cynical view. It's just how it is. Given this and the fact that it takes less money to get a fake Russian passport (under $200) than to bribe an official to get a real one (about $500), this just increases the registration cost for any foreigner wishing to get a domain .ru
Can't it be both? Actions have multiple consequences, so why can't they have multiple causes?
All the "long enough" arguments are moot when it comes to evolution. Because the process is random it is entirely possible for singular events to occur that expedite the change and force to occur over a very short period of time. The argument that genetic variation occured in few early settlers actually supports the claim that vitamin D had a role. Because having paler skin allowed these "freaks" to have stronger bones (vitamin D is used mainly for bone development of children). This, in turn, would obviously allow them to overwhelm their less pale neighbors.
Well, if you ever walk into a university, you'll know that partial derivatives are beyond most business majors. So you can't expect them to try to find extrema points when multiple variables are involved. They need a "damn computer" to do it. This, of course, begs the question "is this really news?"