While I greatly share you lament I believe you are overlooking something. Let's use an example from history.
Slavery existed for thousands of years precisely because people didn't respect themselves which meant that in turn they didn't respect others. It was only through education that _that_ stupidity was overcome.
As long people play the moral superiority arrogance game -- "My beliefs are more important then your beliefs" -- and remain ignorant, nothing will change. Change ALWAYS starts with a belief: "There has to be a better way." This belief eventually becomes faith, then action, then knowledge. That knowledge can be freely taught to save time learning the painful lessons.
And while there is some truth in the phrase "You can fix ignorant but you can't fix stupid" I believe that is used more as a cop-out. Applied application of knowledge is how we overcame EVERY spiritually bankrupt behavior in the past. Knowledge, whether it be intellectual, or experiential (gnosis), is the only real solution in the long run.
It seems the EU would rather remain ignorant then learn from history -- that's the real tragedy. Their dogma of ignorance and intolerance is why the EU will be remembered as nothing more then a footnote in history unless they get their shit together. If they could put their egos aside -- even for just a moment -- they might actually learn something. But alas, their egos probably won't let them so they remain morally bankrupt. The wise student would note that this mirrors their financial bankruptcy. The EU is literally falling apart at every corner but they are too blind to see it. Will they change in time? That remains to be seen...
-- Teachers, not Entertainers, are THE foundation of society.
Newsflash: You can still respect someone and disagree with what they say.
Only an insecure, immature, coward wants to control others. If someone is THAT insecure that they don't like what others are saying -- guess what, they have a choice. Don't listen.
Censorship is NOT the solution -- it is precisely the problem. Moderation, as shown via/. or reddit, is one solution. Now, those STILL have issues (groupthink) but every other option has consistently shown to be much worse.
Apparently the EU members are too stupid to understand:
Ignoring a problem, doesn't magically make it go away, In fact the opposite is true -- it just gets larger.
-- Stupidity of Judaism: Murdering an innocent animal because you fucked up.
Mill laid out his argument for freedom of expression in the second section of On Liberty ('liberty of thought and discussion'). The core of his argument is that censorship prevents us from correcting errors by critical discussion. If a forbidden opinion is true,we lose the opportunity to learn of its truth. If a forbidden opinion is false, we lose the opportunity to remind ourselves why it is false.
Lewis defines this chronological snobbery as âoethe uncritical acceptance of the intellectual climate of our own age and the assumption that whatever has gone out of date is on that count discredited.â Lewis eventually came to understand the need to ask further questions such as: Why did this idea go out of date? Was it ever refuted? If so, by whom, where, and how conclusively? In other words, you need to determine if an old idea is false before you reject it; we would not want to say that everything believed in an ancient culture was false. Which things are false -- and why -- and which things remain true?
> We can quibble over the details of where the line on free speech should be but you have to address how you plan to control hate groups if you let their rhetoric flow freely.
There IS no line. Either you censor or you don't. PERIOD.
Grow the fuck up, put your big boy pants on and learn that not everyone will agree with what you say. And thats OK. Because the opposite, censorship, is FAR, FAR, worse.
Your bullshit "hate speech" is nothing more then censorship.
Apparently you learnt NOTHING from (British) Political Philosopher John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) to which this YouTuber beautifully summarized:
[He] made an argument for free speech including that of hate speech for a good reason.
He argued that if we censor hate speech our fundamental beliefs of what is right and wrong are not tested.
If our beliefs are aren't argued against then we don't attempt to rationalize what we believe to be true.
We don't think about why our beliefs are right.
When we don't question our beliefs we don't think about them.
And when we don't think about our beliefs we don't learn new things. We don't advance and improve our thoughts about what is right and wrong.
He argued that even if someone's argument is wrong it still serves a purpose of making us rationalize and check our beliefs and even improve them.
Being able to listen to an argument that is wrong lets us understand what makes an argument wrong and improve our own beliefs from learning from someone else's failure.
Gee, oh look, C. S. Lewis (Hey, look another smart British citizen!) said the SAME thing, except he called it Chronological Snobbery
Grow the fuck up EU already. Just maybe you should pay more attention to your history.
* Intel CPU's are the fastest CPU's around but you literally PAY through the nose 2x- 5x for a measly ~10% increase in performance. * AMD's Ryzen and Threadripper CPUs have WAY better bang/buck. i.e. In Blender 2.78c AMD's Theadripper 1950X ($999) is faster then the Xeon E5 2699 v4 ($4,115). LOL.
Conclusion:
Is the i9-7960X worth a whopping $700 more then Threadripper 1950X?
For many people, the answer is no. That is money that could be spent into a better GPU or more RAM/SSD.
I was about to post a "No Shit, Sherlock" as an answer to "Is Project Management Killing Good Products, Teams and Software?" but your answer is perfect.
Time and time again I seen people / companies _completely_ fail to heed the two most important points of the book:
* Plan to throw one away, you will anyways. * Adding more people to an already late project just makes the project later
It would be funny if it wasn't so sad how people are completely ignorant of software development history. But I guess Microsoft loves to keep re-inventing chat
-- Fuck You Red Cross for hijacking a COLOR, and a PLUS symbol when the Knights used it _hundreds_ of years before you did.
99.99% of the time SC2 stays at 60+ fps. It is only 1 particular custom map where the framerate gets killed. IIRC it was 3v3 (humans vs AI)
Another friend of mine with an even higher end intel i7 has the exact same problem -- we were playing in the same game and wondered WTF was going when everything is normally buttery smooth. I do know that Blizzard spent a TON of time optimizing SC2 so I'm not exactly sure what is going wrong.
* Some would argue that the only "proper" place is the garbage can.
* Some would argue that is as a "cheap Blu Ray" player. (I'm in this camp.)
* Some would argue they are cheap gaming box. i..e. No broken spyware drivers to worry about and games "just work" out-of-the-box (barring dumb Day 0 patches.)
Who is right? Everyone is right. My needs aren't the same as your needs -- stop judging another person's POV as inferior to your own. This is how we end up with retarded fanbois playing an ePenis game of whose system is "better." My use case isn't the same as yours.
That said, consoles DRM and 30 FPS attitude is bullshit.
... everyone just got tired of the the console fanbois constantly shouting trying to drone everyone else out.
Not everybody has been sucking at the tit of Microsoft, Sony, or Nintendo. In the PC space there have been a ton of AAA and Indie games that just aren't available on console.
Console are nothing more then walled gardens on a gimped PC. (Hey consoles, how's that 120 fps working out? What, you can't do it and you _still_ struggle to do 30 fps @ 1080p BWUAHA.)
PC have been infinitely more customizable. The first to support 22-bit graphics (Voodoo), 32-bit graphics (RGBA), 4K, 120 fps, SSD, etc, consoles are always playing catching -- signified by the "PC Master Race" slogan.
The keyboard + mouse blows the gamepad away for any sort of precision. i.e. I'll seriously doubt we'll ever see StarCraft (1 or 2) on a console anytime soon because console peripherals never sell well. Hell, with Starcraft 2 I can STILL bog down my i7-4770K + GTX 980 Ti.
This same cycle happens every console. A new console comes up. Everyone gets excited over "exclusives", then in a few years everyone goes back to a bigger and better gaming experience on PC -- for those that can afford it -- and whines about all the shitty console ports. Rinse and Repeat.
Consoles have their place, but PC gaming is still around and always will be. You don't need some bullshit license to release your game on PC.
>... socialism which doesn't work on a massive scale because we have too many poor people trying to get in...
The actual problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money.
i.e. You can only rob Peter to pay Paul for so long.
-- "To robbe Petyr & geve it Poule, it were non almesse but gret synne." -- Jacob's well: an English treatise on the cleansing of man's conscience, 1450
"We could have had a single button, but the guy who did the IBM keyboard design didn't wanna give us our single button.
IMHO it wasn't a mistake.
On the Apple ][ there was a RESET button.
On the Apple ][+ it was changed to CTRL-RESET because it was too easy to _accidentally_ trigger a single button.
With the Apple//e a third button was added: CTRL-Open Apple-Reset for a built-in ROM test.
Of all the "mistakes" with Windows, Bill picks this one???? And not the retarded 8.3 filenames when an Apple ][ had _30_ character filenames WITH spaces in then!
> There are no such things as 'spiritual beings'. There are no 'spirits', there is no 'spiritual plane'.
Incorrect. You will find how just completely ignorant you are after your death -- the _experience_ of your consciousness surviving death IS one of the proofs.
Second, you DO realize that animals communicate with one another, right? And that they demonstrate free will. If you actually had a pet such as a cat or dog you would know this.
Third, the problem is scientists are too stupid to realize Everything is conscious. (The Primacy of Consciousness - Peter Russell) Again, if you actually learnt to meditate you would (re)discover this.
> Humans do not innately learn consciousness at all
That's because huamsn ARE conscious -- with varying levels of ability to _express_ it. Your delusion is assuming that consciousness is something that is learnt. If you actually learnt about Lucid Dreaming, OBE's, and NDEs you would realize just how ignorant you are about reality:
You are NOT your body
More importantly:
You are a spiritual being in a human body having a physical experience
> There are no AI companies, because there is no AI. We have a rtificial, but we don't have i ntelligence.
^^ THIS! A glorified table lookup isn't AI regardless of how many dumb marketing droids call it that.
That's why I call A.I. = Artificial Ignorance because that's all it is.
In contradistinction to a.i. = actual intelligence -- you know the ability to "reason", _use_ knowledge, and come to _new_ conclusions.
a.i. is (eventually) coming (with bio-organic computing) but it has just around the corner any day now for the past 20+ years; I wouldn't be surprised if it takes another 20 years.
Modern UI / UX design is a clusterfuck of bad design.
Everything that was learnt for the past 40 years has been thrown out the window. These morons are so focused on Form over Function that you get stupid shit like this:
* How dare we "clutter up" the UI and show the user a scroll bar so they can gauge spatial proximity. Now we have "endless" scrolling with no scroll bar -- so you have no fucking clue how far along the content you are. Want to QUICKLY scroll to a specific spot? LOL. Waste even more time trying to remember where it was. At least with scroll bars the slider position was a VISUAL MNEMONIC to help you remember roughly where it was.
* We get idiotic error messages that don't:
i) explain WHAT caused the problem in the first place, ii) nor HOW to resolve it.
I just ran into one this week. I purchased an album off iTunes and only half the album was downloaded. Clicking on a song that was in grey pops up a dialog Item not available. No Shit, Sherlock. HOW do I _fix_ the problem ?! Really, there was no room to say "iTunes > Purchased Music" ???
* Worse, everything is "flat" so you have NO visual cue to tell what can be interacted with and what is purely informational. You are kept playing a stupid guessing game of "Can I press this?" In the past we had 3D shading for objects that you could interact with and flat shading for informational. From the _context_ you could figure out the UI. Now a days? HAHA.
* Gaudy colors are now "in vogue" because they have been smoking Hollywoods Orange and Teal crack pipe.
The only progress is that:
* "Search" has now been added to "Options" because who needs manuals, right?
* At least they are _finally_ starting to get a clue with 120 FPS. Consoles are still stuck on a shitty 30 fps.
Modern UI / UX people are morons. I fight with these people weekly where their latest design is always half-baked. Hell, just getting them to understand "mach banding" and the simple concept of adding noise to reduce it is an uphill struggle.
-- "Those who forgot the past are condemned to repeat it."
> That's because intuition is, from an engineering standpoint, crap -- only to an idiot engineer.
FTFY.
Emotions are not logical either but that doesn't make them crap.
Mathematicians have been using intuition for thousands of yearsto solve problems.
Just because _you_ don't understand it, now how to use it reliably, doesn't make it crap. Intuition is just another tool, like Logic, to solve problems. Only a complete idiot dismisses a tool because he doesn't understand how to use it.
Maybe you should pay more attention to history (Handymanâ(TM)s Invoice, Engineer marked X)
But with respect to privacy you are. You blindly trust a company (Amazon) isn't:
- tracking, - data-mining, and - profiting
off the data you willing and freely give it. Only a complete idiot trusts a company will somehow a) keep their data safe, and b) not sell it.
IF these home automation tools can be disabled from connecting to the internet and still function then that would be OK.
But don't come crying back to us when your home appliance gets "hacked" when people like you don't see the problem with hooking every shitty device up to the internet.
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While I greatly share you lament I believe you are overlooking something. Let's use an example from history.
Slavery existed for thousands of years precisely because people didn't respect themselves which meant that in turn they didn't respect others. It was only through education that _that_ stupidity was overcome.
As long people play the moral superiority arrogance game -- "My beliefs are more important then your beliefs" -- and remain ignorant, nothing will change. Change ALWAYS starts with a belief: "There has to be a better way." This belief eventually becomes faith, then action, then knowledge. That knowledge can be freely taught to save time learning the painful lessons.
And while there is some truth in the phrase "You can fix ignorant but you can't fix stupid" I believe that is used more as a cop-out. Applied application of knowledge is how we overcame EVERY spiritually bankrupt behavior in the past. Knowledge, whether it be intellectual, or experiential (gnosis), is the only real solution in the long run.
It seems the EU would rather remain ignorant then learn from history -- that's the real tragedy. Their dogma of ignorance and intolerance is why the EU will be remembered as nothing more then a footnote in history unless they get their shit together. If they could put their egos aside -- even for just a moment -- they might actually learn something. But alas, their egos probably won't let them so they remain morally bankrupt. The wise student would note that this mirrors their financial bankruptcy. The EU is literally falling apart at every corner but they are too blind to see it. Will they change in time? That remains to be seen ...
--
Teachers, not Entertainers, are THE foundation of society.
Newsflash: You can still respect someone and disagree with what they say.
Only an insecure, immature, coward wants to control others. If someone is THAT insecure that they don't like what others are saying -- guess what, they have a choice. Don't listen.
Censorship is NOT the solution -- it is precisely the problem. Moderation, as shown via /. or reddit, is one solution. Now, those STILL have issues (groupthink) but every other option has consistently shown to be much worse.
Apparently the EU members are too stupid to understand:
Ignoring a problem, doesn't magically make it go away, In fact the opposite is true -- it just gets larger.
--
Stupidity of Judaism: Murdering an innocent animal because you fucked up.
> 1) Free Speech from the American perspective isn't a universal perspective. It is unique to our circumstance and our history.
Bullshit. Did you completely fail British history ???
* Political Philosopher John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) (British) ; On Liberty is summarized by this On Liberty of Thought and Discussion essay:
* C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) (British) Chronological Snobbery
> We can quibble over the details of where the line on free speech should be but you have to address how you plan to control hate groups if you let their rhetoric flow freely.
There IS no line. Either you censor or you don't. PERIOD.
Grow the fuck up, put your big boy pants on and learn that not everyone will agree with what you say. And thats OK. Because the opposite, censorship, is FAR, FAR, worse.
--
"Only Cowards Censor"
Your bullshit "hate speech" is nothing more then censorship.
Apparently you learnt NOTHING from (British) Political Philosopher John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) to which this YouTuber beautifully summarized:
Gee, oh look, C. S. Lewis (Hey, look another smart British citizen!) said the SAME thing, except he called it Chronological Snobbery
Grow the fuck up EU already. Just maybe you should pay more attention to your history.
--
Only cowards censor.
Depends on what you are doing. Is single-threaded? Multi-threaded? Needs ECC, Memory bound? Computer bound? etc.
For gaming? Nope. An i7-7700K is still faster then the iCore 9. LOL.
For rendering? Yep 2:07 vs 7:19
However, it is important to point out:
* Intel CPU's are the fastest CPU's around but you literally PAY through the nose 2x- 5x for a measly ~10% increase in performance.
* AMD's Ryzen and Threadripper CPUs have WAY better bang/buck. i.e. In Blender 2.78c AMD's Theadripper 1950X ($999) is faster then the Xeon E5 2699 v4 ($4,115). LOL.
Conclusion:
Is the i9-7960X worth a whopping $700 more then Threadripper 1950X?
For many people, the answer is no. That is money that could be spent into a better GPU or more RAM/SSD.
What CPU is "best" depends on your workload.
^^ THIS.
I was about to post a "No Shit, Sherlock" as an answer to "Is Project Management Killing Good Products, Teams and Software?" but your answer is perfect.
Time and time again I seen people / companies _completely_ fail to heed the two most important points of the book:
* Plan to throw one away, you will anyways.
* Adding more people to an already late project just makes the project later
It would be funny if it wasn't so sad how people are completely ignorant of software development history. But I guess Microsoft loves to keep re-inventing chat
--
Fuck You Red Cross for hijacking a COLOR, and a PLUS symbol when the Knights used it _hundreds_ of years before you did.
Here are some more details:
I'm running Windows 7, not Windows 10.
99.99% of the time SC2 stays at 60+ fps. It is only 1 particular custom map where the framerate gets killed. IIRC it was 3v3 (humans vs AI)
Another friend of mine with an even higher end intel i7 has the exact same problem -- we were playing in the same game and wondered WTF was going when everything is normally buttery smooth. I do know that Blizzard spent a TON of time optimizing SC2 so I'm not exactly sure what is going wrong.
A mystery to be solved another day ...
I intentionally left it vague:
* Some would argue that the only "proper" place is the garbage can.
* Some would argue that is as a "cheap Blu Ray" player. (I'm in this camp.)
* Some would argue they are cheap gaming box. i..e. No broken spyware drivers to worry about and games "just work" out-of-the-box (barring dumb Day 0 patches.)
Who is right? Everyone is right. My needs aren't the same as your needs -- stop judging another person's POV as inferior to your own. This is how we end up with retarded fanbois playing an ePenis game of whose system is "better." My use case isn't the same as yours.
That said, consoles DRM and 30 FPS attitude is bullshit.
... everyone just got tired of the the console fanbois constantly shouting trying to drone everyone else out.
Not everybody has been sucking at the tit of Microsoft, Sony, or Nintendo. In the PC space there have been a ton of AAA and Indie games that just aren't available on console.
Console are nothing more then walled gardens on a gimped PC. (Hey consoles, how's that 120 fps working out? What, you can't do it and you _still_ struggle to do 30 fps @ 1080p BWUAHA.)
PC have been infinitely more customizable. The first to support 22-bit graphics (Voodoo), 32-bit graphics (RGBA), 4K, 120 fps, SSD, etc, consoles are always playing catching -- signified by the "PC Master Race" slogan.
The keyboard + mouse blows the gamepad away for any sort of precision. i.e. I'll seriously doubt we'll ever see StarCraft (1 or 2) on a console anytime soon because console peripherals never sell well. Hell, with Starcraft 2 I can STILL bog down my i7-4770K + GTX 980 Ti.
This same cycle happens every console. A new console comes up. Everyone gets excited over "exclusives", then in a few years everyone goes back to a bigger and better gaming experience on PC -- for those that can afford it -- and whines about all the shitty console ports. Rinse and Repeat.
Consoles have their place, but PC gaming is still around and always will be. You don't need some bullshit license to release your game on PC.
With 4K _and_ HDR support?
> ... socialism which doesn't work on a massive scale because we have too many poor people trying to get in ...
The actual problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money.
i.e.
You can only rob Peter to pay Paul for so long.
--
"To robbe Petyr & geve it Poule, it were non almesse but gret synne." -- Jacob's well: an English treatise on the cleansing of man's conscience, 1450
IMHO it wasn't a mistake.
On the Apple ][ there was a RESET button.
On the Apple ][+ it was changed to CTRL-RESET because it was too easy to _accidentally_ trigger a single button.
With the Apple //e a third button was added: CTRL-Open Apple-Reset for a built-in ROM test.
Of all the "mistakes" with Windows, Bill picks this one???? And not the retarded 8.3 filenames when an Apple ][ had _30_ character filenames WITH spaces in then!
---
"Get off my LAN" -- grumpy old programmer
> Neither 'lucid dreams' nor 'OBE's nor 'NDEs' are evidence of any non-physical aspect of human consciousness.
You are completely ignorant of history.
When TWO people have a shared OBE and they can describe, in detail, the SAME experience then yes there is evidence.
I suggest you read My Big Toe
> There are no such things as 'spiritual beings'. There are no 'spirits', there is no 'spiritual plane'.
Incorrect. You will find how just completely ignorant you are after your death -- the _experience_ of your consciousness surviving death IS one of the proofs.
> So they're redefining thought so broadly that most animals are conscious too by their definition
The fact that consciousness doesn't even exist according to the Standard Model should be your first clue that scientists don't have a fucking clue what consciousness is.
Second, you DO realize that animals communicate with one another, right? And that they demonstrate free will. If you actually had a pet such as a cat or dog you would know this.
Third, the problem is scientists are too stupid to realize Everything is conscious. (The Primacy of Consciousness - Peter Russell) Again, if you actually learnt to meditate you would (re)discover this.
> Humans do not innately learn consciousness at all
That's because huamsn ARE conscious -- with varying levels of ability to _express_ it. Your delusion is assuming that consciousness is something that is learnt. If you actually learnt about Lucid Dreaming, OBE's, and NDEs you would realize just how ignorant you are about reality:
More importantly:
But keep ignoring what everyone keeps saying:
From life to death, beyond and back | Thomas Fleischmann | TEDxTUHHSalon
Banned TED Talk: The Science Delusion - Rupert Sheldrake at TEDx Whitechapel
You are not your body: Janine Shepherd at TEDxKC
My stroke of insight | Jill Bolte Taylor
> Babies are not conscious.
[[citation]]
How are you _measuring_ consciousness ?
> Harming people not actively involved in an injustice is terrorism.
Like the US dropping the atomic bomb killing ~129,000 of civilians in Japan. Got it.
Ha! Good point. You know that saying:
One man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist.
-- /.
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> There are no AI companies, because there is no AI. We have a rtificial, but we don't have i ntelligence.
^^ THIS! A glorified table lookup isn't AI regardless of how many dumb marketing droids call it that.
That's why I call A.I. = Artificial Ignorance because that's all it is.
In contradistinction to a.i. = actual intelligence -- you know the ability to "reason", _use_ knowledge, and come to _new_ conclusions.
a.i. is (eventually) coming (with bio-organic computing) but it has just around the corner any day now for the past 20+ years; I wouldn't be surprised if it takes another 20 years.
Modern UI / UX design is a clusterfuck of bad design.
Everything that was learnt for the past 40 years has been thrown out the window. These morons are so focused on Form over Function that you get stupid shit like this:
* How dare we "clutter up" the UI and show the user a scroll bar so they can gauge spatial proximity. Now we have "endless" scrolling with no scroll bar -- so you have no fucking clue how far along the content you are. Want to QUICKLY scroll to a specific spot? LOL. Waste even more time trying to remember where it was. At least with scroll bars the slider position was a VISUAL MNEMONIC to help you remember roughly where it was.
* We get idiotic error messages that don't:
i) explain WHAT caused the problem in the first place,
ii) nor HOW to resolve it.
I just ran into one this week. I purchased an album off iTunes and only half the album was downloaded. Clicking on a song that was in grey pops up a dialog Item not available. No Shit, Sherlock. HOW do I _fix_ the problem ?! Really, there was no room to say "iTunes > Purchased Music" ???
* Worse, everything is "flat" so you have NO visual cue to tell what can be interacted with and what is purely informational. You are kept playing a stupid guessing game of "Can I press this?" In the past we had 3D shading for objects that you could interact with and flat shading for informational. From the _context_ you could figure out the UI. Now a days? HAHA.
* Gaudy colors are now "in vogue" because they have been smoking Hollywoods Orange and Teal crack pipe.
The only progress is that:
* "Search" has now been added to "Options" because who needs manuals, right?
* At least they are _finally_ starting to get a clue with 120 FPS. Consoles are still stuck on a shitty 30 fps.
Modern UI / UX people are morons. I fight with these people weekly where their latest design is always half-baked. Hell, just getting them to understand "mach banding" and the simple concept of adding noise to reduce it is an uphill struggle.
--
"Those who forgot the past are condemned to repeat it."
> That's because intuition is, from an engineering standpoint, crap -- only to an idiot engineer.
FTFY.
Emotions are not logical either but that doesn't make them crap.
Mathematicians have been using intuition for thousands of years to solve problems.
Just because _you_ don't understand it, now how to use it reliably, doesn't make it crap. Intuition is just another tool, like Logic, to solve problems. Only a complete idiot dismisses a tool because he doesn't understand how to use it.
Maybe you should pay more attention to history (Handymanâ(TM)s Invoice, Engineer marked X)
Specifically why did Henri Poincaré publish Intuition and Logic in mathematics (page 11) as part of La valeur de la science (The Value of Science) in 1905 if intuition wasn't important???
> It's common sense to be afraid of something that moves at hundreds of mile per hour thousands of feet in the air.
Hmm, let's compare:
* 700 MPHs vs 70 MPHs -- the speed is an order of magnitude in difference, and
* traveling at a height of 30,000 feet vs surface level,
Gee, ya think there _might_ be some rational fear to flying !?
BlackLivesMatter is bullshit. It gives the impression the other races aren't as important.
Why don't these matter?
RedLivesMatter
YellowLivesMatter
WhiteLivesMatter
There is only ONE way to end all this bullshit:
All Lives Matter
> As the majority of his content is arguably not transformative enough to be protected,
That's _not_ the way the law works. ALL speech is protected.
Who the fuck decides what is "transformative enough" ???
I disagree with what you say but I'll defend your right to say.
--
Only wussies censor.
> I don't see how any of this makes me an idiot.
Using it as utilitarian tool you aren't.
But with respect to privacy you are. You blindly trust a company (Amazon) isn't:
- tracking,
- data-mining, and
- profiting
off the data you willing and freely give it. Only a complete idiot trusts a company will somehow a) keep their data safe, and b) not sell it.
IF these home automation tools can be disabled from connecting to the internet and still function then that would be OK.
But don't come crying back to us when your home appliance gets "hacked" when people like you don't see the problem with hooking every shitty device up to the internet.
Classic "Shoot the messenger, ignore the message" fallacy.
Grow the fuck up.
> China is propping up North Korea because they want a buffer state in the way.
Indeed. The word is "plausible deniability"
China's excuse is "See, _we_ aren't the bad guys. N. Korea is."
> Hopefully, Trump isn't stupid enough to test that.
> Hopefully, Kim Jong Un isn't stupid enough to test that.
Hoping that two morons won't be stupid, is well, stupid.
WWW3 has already started. It just a matter of time before nukes get involved.