You understand that Putin is trying to rebuild the Soviet Union in some form right?
Quotation needed. And no, Ukraine does not count. They had a vote and voted to be part of Russia; that's a far cry from rolling in the tanks and taking it by force.
All this fear mongering about Russia wanting to take other countries is just that. You are supposed to be afraid, so you'll vote for strong leaders and lots of money for defence.
You understand the loss of freedoms both in the former Soviet Union and in the USA / Europe was pretty extreme right?
The foreign boogieman has always been a great excuse to remove freedoms at home.
And I agree with the post below, how the hell is Sweden and Germany destroyed?
And what happens when there is even a hint of a declining population? That's right: politicians have a major panic attack and open the flood gates to immigration from the poorest excuses for countries, bringing in tens of millions of illiterate savages "to keep our economies growing".
This is not some right-wing conspiracy theory, this is reality in Europe today. The EU plans to 'refresh' the population by inviting another 50-60 million African and Middle Eastern muslims. Instead of considering our shrinking population to be a blessing - less stress on the environment, our resources, the space around us, etc. - they are trying to fill the empty seats, as if someone who in almost half the cases hasn't even received enough education to be able to read or write, and who is a member of the most violent religious movement we know, could ever be a productive member of a modern Western society.
But hey, it's ok. We'll just leave our houses cold and dark to "save the planet" while they do it...
Actually it's trivial. Make each vote have the same weight, and there is no more point to gerrymandering.
As a bonus, you'll get more than two parties, since newcomers will win a number of seats in equal ratio to the votes they receive - it's no longer a winner takes all system.
Funny, here I was thinking people were to be judged based on their own actions, not those of others. Will he also be sentenced for whatever crimes Snowden has committed, do you think?
Amen. My department is a software development group (we write C++ for external customers). Back in the day when our computers were locally administrated, we were doing just fine, with a minimum of helpdesk support needed. Then they decided this was unacceptable, and we needed to work with the same systems that the guys in the factory use. Those people work in manufacturing - they build stuff with their hands, and only occasionally read an email on their PCs.
Since that time productivity has dropped sharply in development. We cannot install new tools, nor get them from IT services. We cannot install updates to existing tools either. We cannot even build and test installers, even though that is very much part of our job. We cannot remove icons from the desktop, that requires administrative rights. We cannot use HTTPS. Some internet services work fine when connected to the wired network, others only when connected through the wireless, so all day long I'm switching between the two. Other internet services either don't work at all, or only very slowly, so any interaction with something that is not on a local disk is an exercise in frustration: does it work at all? Is the problem that it's blocked on our end, or is the remote site out? Am I connected to the right network? Do I just need to wait longer?
Opening tickets with the IT services guys is pointless - they are in another country, and consider us to be unimportant. I'm sure it is all incredibly secure. In fact, it's so secure that I'm beginning to re-evaluate whether I want to work there or not...
If that doesn't disable the car, everything is fine. If it does disable the car, it's excellent ground for a court case. What's your point?
Are we really going to accept a society where manufacturers have ultimate power over every item you own? "You may own a house, but you will accept having cameras controlled by us in every room". "You may own a swimming pool, but we will verify that only you and your family swim in it. An extra visitor license is $2000/year". "You may own a barbeque, but only for personal food preparation."
Are you seriously implying that bombing Syria, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. back into the stone age had no impact whatsoever on the quality of life there? That the refugee stream into Europe was entirely caused by internal causes?...mind blown...
Once you buy it, it is YOUR CAR, and you can do with it whatever you please. Tesla has no right whatsoever to constrict what you can do with your car. That's what "selling" means: giving up ownership rights. And before you ask: no, you are not "merely licensing" the car.
Next up: supermarket tells you buying potatoes is fine, but not if you plan to serve them in a restaurant...
I'm not sure why I would have to explain that, since I didn't claim any of that. The OP claimed that a human could not possibly land a moon lander. That's BS - humans _did_ in fact land a moon lander, on the first attempt, succesfully, while the computer was busy crashing. That same human decided he didn't want to land in a field of boulders and veered of course to another landing spot. So far that hasn't been achieved by computers either.
Even in the 60's the moon landings were done by computer. Could a live pilot have executed no, not with the equipment they sent, the fuel use and tolerances for error were far to small.
The proponents of UBI, I'm not one, seem to believe that the money can be found by: - Eliminating all existing forms of social security. In fact this is a major reason often stated for UBI: it "simplifies" the rules to the point that you don't even need people overseeing it. Which leads us to: - Reduced overhead. Apparently they believe that several trillions are currently being spent on "overhead". - And finally, of course you'd be able to tax all those people since they now have income.
So in the end, you take away money from the people who actually need it, spread it over a far larger group including a great many people who do NOT need it, thus leaving everyone in the first group with far too little to live on. And what little you get, you need to return in the form of taxes in order to pay for the whole scheme.
Then they point at "succesful" trials, without mentioning that no single trial was so succesful that it was continued to this day, and without mentioning that all of those trials relied on money being poured in from outside.
We haven't even begun to discuss what such a scheme would do to society as a whole - if you pay people to do nothing, is there going to be any kind of progress? Will there be anyone left for the less pleasant, but nonetheless necessary jobs? Or hell, for any kind of work? Will it be acceptable for foreigners to enter the country and receive UBI, or will a 'wall' be necessary?
A country is the personal fiefdom of a small, rich oligarchy. Any possible semblance of shared history, identity, or cultural values should at all times be avoided, and if discovered anyway, must be destroyed through indoctrination, mass immigration, and any other means available. The purpose of the people living in a country is to provide cheap labor and easy income through the maximum possible level of taxation. Randomly applied laws will make it clear to them who's boss. Personal profit shall at all times overrule any consideration for the health of the country. And anyone who questions this state of affairs shall be ridiculed and have his public image destroyed.
Wow, I had no idea you needed to read a book before you could even make an informed choice which Python version is appropriate for a project. It really inspires me to want to learn the language.
If the compatibility problems are that bad, maybe they should have given those languages different names. It's not like snake names don't offer any choices. "Yes, I'm developing this in Death Adder. It was the best choice according to a free O'Reilly book I downloaded of the internet..."
Unless of course this is a book about the care and handling of actual snakes. In that case I must apologize to all the Python fans out there.
Since I presume they're going to want people at Google to use Noto as standard, it seems sensible to me that they create a programmers' version.
What kind of madness makes you presume Google wants all its employees to use this font?
Tell, I'm genuinely curious. Do you also believe they do all their programming on phones running Android? Or do you suppose they might be allowed to use, I don't know, laptops or normal desktops?
I'm 45 and have not noticed any change in my ability to learn new stuff. What I have noticed is a decline in my willingness to put up with BS. You want me to work 14 hours per day? Uhm. No. I have a life. Ask that 22-year old fresh out of university without any serious experience, he'll fall for that.
Does that make me less employable? Not really. Of course employers will know I have this attitude, but everyone over 40 does, so the fact that I feel that way doesn't change much for me personally.
Once again, it is not about being able to learn, it is about what you will put up with. Once you are over 40, the kind of treatment you will accept shrinks dramatically, and with it, your employability.
It's not "dirty like coal". Coal gives you _guaranteed_ dirt, plus the additional _guarantee_ of killing the planet. Nuclear does neither. That means nuclear is by far the preferable option.
So what is it going to be: mess up the entire planet, or build the safest nuclear plants we can and perhaps mess up one tiny spot every few centuries? Keep burning coal in endless quantities, or choose a completely emission-free technology?
And no, pointing to decades old plants that were in at least one case made by people with zero safety standards does not count as evidence of danger. The true danger is destroying our world; we will certainly do better if we limit that danger to the best nucleair plants we can build.
And yet flood legends are found all across the world (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_flood_myths). Sure, each writes his own creator and race progenitor into the tale, but water-related catastrophes are apparently not uncommon.
Genesis 6:3 NIV Then the LORD said, “My Spirit will not contend with humans forever, for they are mortal; their days will be a hundred and twenty years.”
I give you Genesis 3:21: And the Lord God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.”
I read that as a biblical promise that somewhere out there we can find the knowledge of what is so poetically called the "tree of life", and live forever.
Genesis is an interesting book anyway. Genesis 2:21 tells us that So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and then closed up the place with flesh. 22 Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man.
Men have the same number of ribs as women. The critical difference is that men have a Y-chromosome... which is like an X-chromosome, but with one rib less.
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You understand that Putin is trying to rebuild the Soviet Union in some form right?
Quotation needed. And no, Ukraine does not count. They had a vote and voted to be part of Russia; that's a far cry from rolling in the tanks and taking it by force.
All this fear mongering about Russia wanting to take other countries is just that. You are supposed to be afraid, so you'll vote for strong leaders and lots of money for defence.
You understand the loss of freedoms both in the former Soviet Union and in the USA / Europe was pretty extreme right?
The foreign boogieman has always been a great excuse to remove freedoms at home.
And I agree with the post below, how the hell is Sweden and Germany destroyed?
https://www.google.com/search?...
And what happens when there is even a hint of a declining population? That's right: politicians have a major panic attack and open the flood gates to immigration from the poorest excuses for countries, bringing in tens of millions of illiterate savages "to keep our economies growing".
This is not some right-wing conspiracy theory, this is reality in Europe today. The EU plans to 'refresh' the population by inviting another 50-60 million African and Middle Eastern muslims. Instead of considering our shrinking population to be a blessing - less stress on the environment, our resources, the space around us, etc. - they are trying to fill the empty seats, as if someone who in almost half the cases hasn't even received enough education to be able to read or write, and who is a member of the most violent religious movement we know, could ever be a productive member of a modern Western society.
But hey, it's ok. We'll just leave our houses cold and dark to "save the planet" while they do it...
http://langleveeuropa.nl/2016/...
Studies have shown that female programmers write more efficient code on average than male programmers.
Can we please have a link to those 'studies'? Because I find this remark exceedingly sexist and I wonder if you aren't just making things up.
Actually it's trivial. Make each vote have the same weight, and there is no more point to gerrymandering.
As a bonus, you'll get more than two parties, since newcomers will win a number of seats in equal ratio to the votes they receive - it's no longer a winner takes all system.
Wasn't there a minor issue with cable providers also becoming liable for the content that passes through their cables if they monitor?
If all the guy did was bring classified home to work at home, he'll get a good slap of a year in prison or something along those lines.
He could always decide to run for president...
Funny, here I was thinking people were to be judged based on their own actions, not those of others. Will he also be sentenced for whatever crimes Snowden has committed, do you think?
Amen. My department is a software development group (we write C++ for external customers). Back in the day when our computers were locally administrated, we were doing just fine, with a minimum of helpdesk support needed. Then they decided this was unacceptable, and we needed to work with the same systems that the guys in the factory use. Those people work in manufacturing - they build stuff with their hands, and only occasionally read an email on their PCs.
Since that time productivity has dropped sharply in development. We cannot install new tools, nor get them from IT services. We cannot install updates to existing tools either. We cannot even build and test installers, even though that is very much part of our job. We cannot remove icons from the desktop, that requires administrative rights. We cannot use HTTPS. Some internet services work fine when connected to the wired network, others only when connected through the wireless, so all day long I'm switching between the two. Other internet services either don't work at all, or only very slowly, so any interaction with something that is not on a local disk is an exercise in frustration: does it work at all? Is the problem that it's blocked on our end, or is the remote site out? Am I connected to the right network? Do I just need to wait longer?
Opening tickets with the IT services guys is pointless - they are in another country, and consider us to be unimportant. I'm sure it is all incredibly secure. In fact, it's so secure that I'm beginning to re-evaluate whether I want to work there or not...
If that doesn't disable the car, everything is fine. If it does disable the car, it's excellent ground for a court case. What's your point?
Are we really going to accept a society where manufacturers have ultimate power over every item you own? "You may own a house, but you will accept having cameras controlled by us in every room". "You may own a swimming pool, but we will verify that only you and your family swim in it. An extra visitor license is $2000/year". "You may own a barbeque, but only for personal food preparation."
Madness, that's what it is.
Are you seriously implying that bombing Syria, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. back into the stone age had no impact whatsoever on the quality of life there? That the refugee stream into Europe was entirely caused by internal causes? ...mind blown...
Once you buy it, it is YOUR CAR, and you can do with it whatever you please. Tesla has no right whatsoever to constrict what you can do with your car. That's what "selling" means: giving up ownership rights. And before you ask: no, you are not "merely licensing" the car.
Next up: supermarket tells you buying potatoes is fine, but not if you plan to serve them in a restaurant...
Be grateful for the bread and circus, because it's not actually killing people.
Unless you live in the Middle East, or Africa, or Europe.
I'm not sure why I would have to explain that, since I didn't claim any of that. The OP claimed that a human could not possibly land a moon lander. That's BS - humans _did_ in fact land a moon lander, on the first attempt, succesfully, while the computer was busy crashing. That same human decided he didn't want to land in a field of boulders and veered of course to another landing spot. So far that hasn't been achieved by computers either.
Even in the 60's the moon landings were done by computer. Could a live pilot have executed no, not with the equipment they sent, the fuel use and tolerances for error were far to small.
Nice story. Now here's what really happened: http://www.space.com/26593-apo...
The proponents of UBI, I'm not one, seem to believe that the money can be found by:
- Eliminating all existing forms of social security. In fact this is a major reason often stated for UBI: it "simplifies" the rules to the point that you don't even need people overseeing it. Which leads us to:
- Reduced overhead. Apparently they believe that several trillions are currently being spent on "overhead".
- And finally, of course you'd be able to tax all those people since they now have income.
So in the end, you take away money from the people who actually need it, spread it over a far larger group including a great many people who do NOT need it, thus leaving everyone in the first group with far too little to live on. And what little you get, you need to return in the form of taxes in order to pay for the whole scheme.
Then they point at "succesful" trials, without mentioning that no single trial was so succesful that it was continued to this day, and without mentioning that all of those trials relied on money being poured in from outside.
We haven't even begun to discuss what such a scheme would do to society as a whole - if you pay people to do nothing, is there going to be any kind of progress? Will there be anyone left for the less pleasant, but nonetheless necessary jobs? Or hell, for any kind of work? Will it be acceptable for foreigners to enter the country and receive UBI, or will a 'wall' be necessary?
I'm single, not a chance of marrying, and I doubt I will ever get a date.
If you owned a cool self-driving car that might change...
How does ISIS even get such equipment? Apparently _somebody_ is _still_ delivering high-tech toys into that part of the world...
A country is the personal fiefdom of a small, rich oligarchy. Any possible semblance of shared history, identity, or cultural values should at all times be avoided, and if discovered anyway, must be destroyed through indoctrination, mass immigration, and any other means available. The purpose of the people living in a country is to provide cheap labor and easy income through the maximum possible level of taxation. Randomly applied laws will make it clear to them who's boss. Personal profit shall at all times overrule any consideration for the health of the country. And anyone who questions this state of affairs shall be ridiculed and have his public image destroyed.
Wow, I had no idea you needed to read a book before you could even make an informed choice which Python version is appropriate for a project. It really inspires me to want to learn the language.
If the compatibility problems are that bad, maybe they should have given those languages different names. It's not like snake names don't offer any choices. "Yes, I'm developing this in Death Adder. It was the best choice according to a free O'Reilly book I downloaded of the internet..."
Unless of course this is a book about the care and handling of actual snakes. In that case I must apologize to all the Python fans out there.
Since I presume they're going to want people at Google to use Noto as standard, it seems sensible to me that they create a programmers' version.
What kind of madness makes you presume Google wants all its employees to use this font?
Tell, I'm genuinely curious. Do you also believe they do all their programming on phones running Android? Or do you suppose they might be allowed to use, I don't know, laptops or normal desktops?
I'm 45 and have not noticed any change in my ability to learn new stuff. What I have noticed is a decline in my willingness to put up with BS. You want me to work 14 hours per day? Uhm. No. I have a life. Ask that 22-year old fresh out of university without any serious experience, he'll fall for that.
Does that make me less employable? Not really. Of course employers will know I have this attitude, but everyone over 40 does, so the fact that I feel that way doesn't change much for me personally.
Once again, it is not about being able to learn, it is about what you will put up with. Once you are over 40, the kind of treatment you will accept shrinks dramatically, and with it, your employability.
It's not "dirty like coal". Coal gives you _guaranteed_ dirt, plus the additional _guarantee_ of killing the planet. Nuclear does neither. That means nuclear is by far the preferable option.
So what is it going to be: mess up the entire planet, or build the safest nuclear plants we can and perhaps mess up one tiny spot every few centuries? Keep burning coal in endless quantities, or choose a completely emission-free technology?
And no, pointing to decades old plants that were in at least one case made by people with zero safety standards does not count as evidence of danger. The true danger is destroying our world; we will certainly do better if we limit that danger to the best nucleair plants we can build.
And yet flood legends are found all across the world (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_flood_myths). Sure, each writes his own creator and race progenitor into the tale, but water-related catastrophes are apparently not uncommon.
Genesis 6:3 NIV
Then the LORD said, “My Spirit will not contend with humans forever, for they are mortal; their days will be a hundred and twenty years.”
I give you Genesis 3:21: And the Lord God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.”
I read that as a biblical promise that somewhere out there we can find the knowledge of what is so poetically called the "tree of life", and live forever.
Genesis is an interesting book anyway. Genesis 2:21 tells us that So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and then closed up the place with flesh. 22 Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man.
Men have the same number of ribs as women. The critical difference is that men have a Y-chromosome... which is like an X-chromosome, but with one rib less.