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  1. Re:Amateur radio nets? on Why Can't More Than Four People Have a Conversation at Once? (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm willing to read a copy of the basic guidelines before I jump on your bandwagon, but I lean that direction too. Don't see how it's what I consider a conversation.

  2. How appropriate. on Why Can't More Than Four People Have a Conversation at Once? (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    I just came back from a visit to a friend's house. Her mother, father and husband were there. This fragmentation thingie did not occur. Our conversation was about standard family stuff, mostly kids. So my supposition is that topics generally important enough can override this fission as long as it remains the main topic. It also helps to have people who are interested in hearing what all the others have to say.

    If everyone doesn't know the topic, shift to one where everyone does. It's called being polite. Any two who start having a private conversation in front of the others are just being dicks.

  3. And Woodward has been proven to have no problem with fabricating quotes. Not a good standard for you to have raised.

  4. Bullshit on Amazon.com Suffers Search Glitch, Users Say · · Score: 1

    Search is working just fine.

  5. And or ten years on Chrome Browser Turns 10 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Chrome's data scraping owners have thought I only use a browser to watch TV.

  6. Re:Parenthood on How Can We Fix The Broken Economics of Open Source? (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    documentation, examples, explanations.

    Bwahahahaha! Sorry, couldn't help it.

  7. Re:Yes, it is a machine language on How Linux's Kernel Developers 'Make C Less Dangerous' (hpe.com) · · Score: 1

    I've coded in machine language. C is not machine language.

  8. Re:Optimisations on How Linux's Kernel Developers 'Make C Less Dangerous' (hpe.com) · · Score: 1

    No, most are related to incompetent coders.

    Making them not language specific.

  9. Re:Humanities degrees are anything but useless on Popular College Majors Changed Abruptly After the Financial Crisis (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    “The last thing we need to do is to monkey this up by trying to embrace a socialist agenda with huge tax increases and bankrupting the state,”

    Perfectly understandable. Appears you may be the dog.

  10. Re:Humanities degrees are anything but useless on Popular College Majors Changed Abruptly After the Financial Crisis (qz.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Now imagine you're a straight, religious person and were assigned a room with a cross-dressing trans with a full beard who won't shut up about trans rights. The kid in your example has exactly the same options (as well as safe rooms) as the kid in mine - request a new room and roommate. The safe rooms are superfluous.

  11. Re:The humanities strike back on Popular College Majors Changed Abruptly After the Financial Crisis (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Good universities require a broad level of education to graduate.

    This is done to soak you for a plethora of classes which will never be of any use to you. It is not for your benefit.

    Everyone should learn political science.

    No. Everyone should not be indoctrinated.

  12. It's not clear they are making the right decision on Popular College Majors Changed Abruptly After the Financial Crisis (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah it is.

  13. Re:Nostalgia ain't what it used to be on AI Still Useless at Catching Hate Speech, Research Finds (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    There are some people susceptible to the illogical messages of hate speech who cannot be brought to their senses with reason.

    You mean like Eric Clanton who took a bike lock to several peaceful demonstrators?

    Yeah, deplatforming. You might want to check out just how quickly FB, et al are at policing and deplatforming the 'hate speech' of EC and his ilk.

  14. but that would make those systems AI

    Oh, please. I've written "pattern recognition and reasoning operations" for my entire career. Using that as a definition is too vague to be of any use.

  15. Re:Linux is a moving target on What Dropbox Dropping Linux Support Says (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    "it doesnt take any longer" You're an idiot. "its far more stable" You're a pompous idiot who doesn't understand contractions.

  16. Re:Yeah they are. on Scientists Warn the UN of Capitalism's Imminent Demise (vice.com) · · Score: 1
    No, the collapse of the Bronze Age was initiated by the introduction of the Iron Age.

    led into a dark age that lasted 1600 years.

    Nice fabrication on your part. The Bronze Age collapsed around 12th century BC. According to you there was a Dark Ages lasting from then until 400AD? Don't think so. What some refer to as the Dark Ages (a misnomer) is the European Middle Ages (~5th to 15th centuries AD), particularly: You missed the holy hell out of that one.

  17. Re:Capitalism is the worst economic system... on Scientists Warn the UN of Capitalism's Imminent Demise (vice.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Given that capitalism is fundamentally based on an assumption of greed

    Maybe it's a given to *you* but it's not for everyone else. I see it as fundamentally based on people reaching a mutually agreed upon exchange. You **don't have to work for or sell anything to anyone**. Except, of course, in Marxist or Socialist systems.

    For us, that means the exploitation of the middle-class, the lower-class, and the things we share with the wealthy, such as our shared natural resources.

    Check out Venezuela. Apparently your fears aren't confined to capitalist systems.

    the necessary changes will almost certainly require changes to the Constitution

    Ah. The actual goal of your screed. Piss off to that.

  18. Re:FUD on Scientists Warn the UN of Capitalism's Imminent Demise (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Venezuela has effectively been wiped clean. Perhaps they could start there.

  19. Re:But.. they're *Scientists!* on Scientists Warn the UN of Capitalism's Imminent Demise (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    You mean they behave just like people under communism and socialism? Wow, who'da thought.

  20. Re:"Scientists" on Scientists Warn the UN of Capitalism's Imminent Demise (vice.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Oh, please - cultural researcher, political scientist, philosopher, philosopher and journalist, artist. How in hell do you believe those are scientific endeavors? Possibly Eronen (geosciences and geography) in his own field which has what all to do with economics?

  21. Re:Forms of Government will Change on Scientists Warn the UN of Capitalism's Imminent Demise (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    No. Venezuela isn't a canary, it's a dodo bird.

  22. Yeah they are. on Scientists Warn the UN of Capitalism's Imminent Demise (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    the new report says that these are not really separate crises at all.

  23. Re:Go Tell it to Steam Train Engineers on It's Not Technology That's Disrupting Our Jobs (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Holy Shit! You mean we don't use trains anymore?!

  24. Re:Uhm, duh on It's Not Technology That's Disrupting Our Jobs (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Love it when someone who knows his shit addresses an "article".

  25. Re:Billy? Is it senility or ... on Bill Gates Argues 'Supply and Demand' Doesn't Apply To Software (gatesnotes.com) · · Score: 1

    Even if you could make some kind of special order just finding it was very hard before the Internet.

    Not really. Back in about 1970, I wanted a book - Das Tierreich, Mantidae. Spelling unsure as I no longer have it. Point is, it was rare at the time and all I had to do was send a letter to a book searcher and viola, I was able to purchase it. Time delay. Yes. Very hard? No.