they approve gene therapy on people, but not on the plants that people eat. We do it the other way around. Pretty sure we still win the race to be the least dumb.
made me pee all over myself laughing. This is idiotic. Have you used it on Android? The 1st version was good. But after the blow-up-even-the-tiny-pictures-and-make-them-the-whole-experience-while-hiding-most-of-the-text upgrade it not only made g+ garabage, it made the whole point of having an android phone questionable. The last time I hated an upgrade this much was when Verizon switched form static IP to dynamic IP in the 90's and called it an "upgrade".
If we trust people to become experts in predicting things, and brains are essentially probability estimators, then why not trust other probability estimating machines?
I tried it.... it worked! I like it so much, I tried it again and again and again. This is more fun than sex! And you don't even have to pick a different name every time like you do in sex.
Well, no. The Windows kernel is pretty damn good. The only reason Windows sucks now is that they don't make developer tools which expose the motivation behind their operating system constructs. The tools are too cludgy so the developers are driven away. But the operating system itself has gotten quite good. It's the philosophy of treating outside developers with suspicion that does them in, I guess.
I keep getting iPads as gifts and I think people are regifting them. I have at any one time 3-4 of them sitting on my desk and I can't even give them away to family members. They don't have any use for them. The only fun use for an iPad that someone told me lately was to train a cat to use it.
You are misunderstanding the nature of discussion and debate.
Given how simple the concepts are, you should think twice before throwing this accusation out. Really.
if you cannot explain the reasons for the claims that you make,
I have explained it. You just haven't accepted the explanation. Which is fine. Reasonable people can disagree.
people react emotionally to terms like "anti-semite"
Well, I think people also react emotionally to antisemitic behavior itself. And to racist behavior. Those are not rational behaviors. They can't be reasoned away. Let me draw an analogy. Let's say your friend has a scar. And a bully at a play yard keeps talking about how ugly he is because of that scar. Even if your friend does well on a test, makes a brilliant observation, sings a beautiful song... the bully still manages to use that scar as a way to insult your friend and to tie it somehow to your friend's accomplishments in order to make it seem like that scar is all that your friend is. Can you argue with such a bully? He isn't wrong. The friend may have the scar. But do you want to spend your energy debating its size? Or its importance to everything your friend does? If you don't lack judgement, you simply realize that the bully is a bully. And that his response is emotional and, as such, it can be labeled bullying and the fact that the scar is actually there doesn't make it any less bullying. You don't need to prove that his bullying is bullying despite the scar being present. The proof is in the pudding.
And therefore I must ask you again, very politely, to "shut up".
As I mentioned, there is no such thing as politely asking someone to "shut up". If I see idiots mocking scientific accomplishments because they come from Israel and the said idiots don't like some unrelated Israel's behavior, I'll keep mocking it. Because it's funny. Ymmv, of course.
And since I am in a good mood, I'll give you a third reply... You do enjoy thinking rationally, so you'll appreciate someone poking holes in your reason... since that informs you, right? So... this:
...The only rational conclusion for a reader is that either you believe...
isn't even remotely accurate. The logically consistent statement would have been "...One possible conclusion for a reader is that either you believe..."
What information, apart from the posts themselves (which criticize Israel), did you use to deduce that the posters were anti-Semitic?
As I mentioned in another post, my judgement. Fully rational argument is only possible in the presence of perfect information. In the absence of full information (as is always the case with any individual posting on the Internet ), one must make estimates of truth value of statements, motivations, emotions, etc. based on one's best guess. And from the manner of those posts I judge the posters to be more concerned with finding an outlet for their racism/antisemitism than with any actual facts about Israel. In fact, you can often reserve judgement. But in their case the antisemitism screams so loudly that I feel very comfortable with my best-guess estimate.
Now explain again why criticism of Israel is anti-Semitic?
Didn't say it was. I made statement about 2 individuals -- not about a general concept. Those two were criticizing Israel as an outlet for their antisemitism. In fact, I made no statement about criticism of Israel in general. Israel, for example, has a high road traffic fatality rate. If you criticize their traffic laws, I don't think that would be antisemitic. In fact, claiming that criticism of Israel's traffic safety is antisemitic would be kooky. I just don't buy the assertion that the two posters to whom I responded were genuinely concerned with anything other than a way to act out on their racist tendencies. I don't buy it. Live with it.
There is nothing uncommon about being jewish and being antisemitic. In fact, it's one of the oldest stories in the Western history. So "I am jewish" does not in any way whatsoever prove that you are not antisemitic. I am not saying that you are antisemitic. But I am saying that what offer as the proof that you are not does not rise up.
I don't buy the "if you criticise anything at all about Israel then you're anti-semitic" argument, myself.
That's nice. I didn't make that argument, however. I made the argument that the 2 posters in question were anti-semitic and their criticism of Israel was just an outlet for their antisemitism. Actually, that was my judgement of their posts. I didn't really make any arguments to back up my claim... nor do I have to when I am being snide. And I was obviously being snide.
. Real world demand and valuation on what someone is willing to pay for something should be the metric as it is what society needs the most.
Absolutely true. Which is exactly why you shouldn't treat the number of posts on Monster or Dice as indicative of anything. Read the gp post again for the explanation.
And your solution is to have even farmers interact with the earth only remotely?
Obviously. If people would like to interact with nature, they would. It's not like we are choosing to do what we hate. The only reason we romanticize nature is because we are so removed from it. In reality, survival is struggle against nature. The only reason we are able to forget that is because we have gotten so good at it.
Shame? No I don't think racists can be shamed. And anti-antisemitism is racism. And those two posters were anti-Semitic. I was informing them that the BS line that every anti-semite uses as an excuses to continue with the their antisemitic BS is just that. It's completely transparent. The only people agreeing with them are the one in their own circle jerk. And the only reason they think there are so many of them is because they on the internet which connects people who are far away. Otherwise, in any normal company of people all of these "I am anti-Israel... and please, please, please, I am not anti-semitic" garbage would get you the title you deserve: demented. Please, spare me all the arguments. I get them. I just don't buy them. I call bull shit.
Don't treat number of posts on dice or monster as indicative of anything. Most of them are daily re-posts for non-existing jobs by resume-collection mills. Jobs which actually exist and get filled statistically end up being much more rare on those sites.
generation of future C-programmer-turned-C++-programmer are being trained to think they know the one true way to code. They,too, someday, will try out C++ for its standard libraries and then will end up writing the most awful C++ code anyone has to read. And until their brain gets rewired for object-oriented thinking, they'll be laughing off everyone telling them that the garbage they write has to be actually readable by someone or it's pretty much useless. They will scoff and they will feel self-righteous. And then someday they will realize that they themselves can no longer read what they wrote. They will start thinking of ways to program in a way that is not just some throw-away code readable by a very small group of people. And then they will start coming up with ideas... the way they came up with ideas the first time they learned to program (only to later on realize that it's all been described in standard textbooks and that they didn't really come up with anything innovative). This time around it will be no different when after all the scoffing and all the flaming they'll pick up a copy of the 4 horsemen, read through it and nod along thinking to themselves "why haven't I read this before?" It has all happened before. It will all happen again.
Yes, yes. We get it. You both are not antisemitic. You are anti-israeli. Or better, you "disagree with some policies of the Israeli government." Really, we do believe you. No need to get defensive and start a flame war about it.
The only reason you think of a military formation is that modern society is so far removed from necessary physical interactions with nature. Why military? This could be farmers controlling robots which gather crops.... computer connections are cheaper than transporting people in actual physical space.
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they approve gene therapy on people, but not on the plants that people eat. We do it the other way around. Pretty sure we still win the race to be the least dumb.
The user interface is comfortable and friendly.
made me pee all over myself laughing. This is idiotic. Have you used it on Android? The 1st version was good. But after the blow-up-even-the-tiny-pictures-and-make-them-the-whole-experience-while-hiding-most-of-the-text upgrade it not only made g+ garabage, it made the whole point of having an android phone questionable. The last time I hated an upgrade this much was when Verizon switched form static IP to dynamic IP in the 90's and called it an "upgrade".
If he had any sex worth taping, he probably wouldn't have done it.
If we trust people to become experts in predicting things, and brains are essentially probability estimators, then why not trust other probability estimating machines?
I tried it.... it worked! I like it so much, I tried it again and again and again. This is more fun than sex! And you don't even have to pick a different name every time like you do in sex.
Actually no, it's not possible to be Jewish and antisemitic.
That's a laugh. Of course, it is. It's very, very common, in fact.
Well, no. The Windows kernel is pretty damn good. The only reason Windows sucks now is that they don't make developer tools which expose the motivation behind their operating system constructs. The tools are too cludgy so the developers are driven away. But the operating system itself has gotten quite good. It's the philosophy of treating outside developers with suspicion that does them in, I guess.
I keep getting iPads as gifts and I think people are regifting them. I have at any one time 3-4 of them sitting on my desk and I can't even give them away to family members. They don't have any use for them. The only fun use for an iPad that someone told me lately was to train a cat to use it.
You are misunderstanding the nature of discussion and debate.
Given how simple the concepts are, you should think twice before throwing this accusation out. Really.
if you cannot explain the reasons for the claims that you make,
I have explained it. You just haven't accepted the explanation. Which is fine. Reasonable people can disagree.
people react emotionally to terms like "anti-semite"
Well, I think people also react emotionally to antisemitic behavior itself. And to racist behavior. Those are not rational behaviors. They can't be reasoned away. Let me draw an analogy. Let's say your friend has a scar. And a bully at a play yard keeps talking about how ugly he is because of that scar. Even if your friend does well on a test, makes a brilliant observation, sings a beautiful song... the bully still manages to use that scar as a way to insult your friend and to tie it somehow to your friend's accomplishments in order to make it seem like that scar is all that your friend is. Can you argue with such a bully? He isn't wrong. The friend may have the scar. But do you want to spend your energy debating its size? Or its importance to everything your friend does? If you don't lack judgement, you simply realize that the bully is a bully. And that his response is emotional and, as such, it can be labeled bullying and the fact that the scar is actually there doesn't make it any less bullying. You don't need to prove that his bullying is bullying despite the scar being present. The proof is in the pudding.
And therefore I must ask you again, very politely, to "shut up".
As I mentioned, there is no such thing as politely asking someone to "shut up". If I see idiots mocking scientific accomplishments because they come from Israel and the said idiots don't like some unrelated Israel's behavior, I'll keep mocking it. Because it's funny. Ymmv, of course.
...The only rational conclusion for a reader is that either you believe...
isn't even remotely accurate. The logically consistent statement would have been "...One possible conclusion for a reader is that either you believe..."
could you please keep these claims to yourself?
You know that being polite about saying "shut up" doesn't actually make you more polite, right? It just makes you a prick.
What information, apart from the posts themselves (which criticize Israel), did you use to deduce that the posters were anti-Semitic?
As I mentioned in another post, my judgement. Fully rational argument is only possible in the presence of perfect information. In the absence of full information (as is always the case with any individual posting on the Internet ), one must make estimates of truth value of statements, motivations, emotions, etc. based on one's best guess. And from the manner of those posts I judge the posters to be more concerned with finding an outlet for their racism/antisemitism than with any actual facts about Israel. In fact, you can often reserve judgement. But in their case the antisemitism screams so loudly that I feel very comfortable with my best-guess estimate.
Now explain again why criticism of Israel is anti-Semitic?
Didn't say it was. I made statement about 2 individuals -- not about a general concept. Those two were criticizing Israel as an outlet for their antisemitism. In fact, I made no statement about criticism of Israel in general. Israel, for example, has a high road traffic fatality rate. If you criticize their traffic laws, I don't think that would be antisemitic. In fact, claiming that criticism of Israel's traffic safety is antisemitic would be kooky. I just don't buy the assertion that the two posters to whom I responded were genuinely concerned with anything other than a way to act out on their racist tendencies. I don't buy it. Live with it.
There is nothing uncommon about being jewish and being antisemitic. In fact, it's one of the oldest stories in the Western history. So "I am jewish" does not in any way whatsoever prove that you are not antisemitic. I am not saying that you are antisemitic. But I am saying that what offer as the proof that you are not does not rise up.
I don't buy the "if you criticise anything at all about Israel then you're anti-semitic" argument, myself.
That's nice. I didn't make that argument, however. I made the argument that the 2 posters in question were anti-semitic and their criticism of Israel was just an outlet for their antisemitism. Actually, that was my judgement of their posts. I didn't really make any arguments to back up my claim... nor do I have to when I am being snide. And I was obviously being snide.
. Real world demand and valuation on what someone is willing to pay for something should be the metric as it is what society needs the most.
Absolutely true. Which is exactly why you shouldn't treat the number of posts on Monster or Dice as indicative of anything. Read the gp post again for the explanation.
And your solution is to have even farmers interact with the earth only remotely?
Obviously. If people would like to interact with nature, they would. It's not like we are choosing to do what we hate. The only reason we romanticize nature is because we are so removed from it. In reality, survival is struggle against nature. The only reason we are able to forget that is because we have gotten so good at it.
Ok, let me remove the passive then. Since THAT offends you. Eat shit and die, racist.
Shame? No I don't think racists can be shamed. And anti-antisemitism is racism. And those two posters were anti-Semitic. I was informing them that the BS line that every anti-semite uses as an excuses to continue with the their antisemitic BS is just that. It's completely transparent. The only people agreeing with them are the one in their own circle jerk. And the only reason they think there are so many of them is because they on the internet which connects people who are far away. Otherwise, in any normal company of people all of these "I am anti-Israel... and please, please, please, I am not anti-semitic" garbage would get you the title you deserve: demented. Please, spare me all the arguments. I get them. I just don't buy them. I call bull shit.
Don't treat number of posts on dice or monster as indicative of anything. Most of them are daily re-posts for non-existing jobs by resume-collection mills. Jobs which actually exist and get filled statistically end up being much more rare on those sites.
generation of future C-programmer-turned-C++-programmer are being trained to think they know the one true way to code. They,too, someday, will try out C++ for its standard libraries and then will end up writing the most awful C++ code anyone has to read. And until their brain gets rewired for object-oriented thinking, they'll be laughing off everyone telling them that the garbage they write has to be actually readable by someone or it's pretty much useless. They will scoff and they will feel self-righteous. And then someday they will realize that they themselves can no longer read what they wrote. They will start thinking of ways to program in a way that is not just some throw-away code readable by a very small group of people. And then they will start coming up with ideas... the way they came up with ideas the first time they learned to program (only to later on realize that it's all been described in standard textbooks and that they didn't really come up with anything innovative). This time around it will be no different when after all the scoffing and all the flaming they'll pick up a copy of the 4 horsemen, read through it and nod along thinking to themselves "why haven't I read this before?" It has all happened before. It will all happen again.
I am sorry, but any information which shows up in a Google search is not private. Any argument to the contrary is insane.
Yes, yes. We get it. You both are not antisemitic. You are anti-israeli. Or better, you "disagree with some policies of the Israeli government." Really, we do believe you. No need to get defensive and start a flame war about it.
This interface doesn't read the neural impulses. It does the detection by determining which parts of the brain receive more blood.
The only reason you think of a military formation is that modern society is so far removed from necessary physical interactions with nature. Why military? This could be farmers controlling robots which gather crops.... computer connections are cheaper than transporting people in actual physical space.