Ah, a link to a video as a reply - how postliterate of you!
More seriously, one of my pet hates is links to videos without context but that's just me so I don't actually think less of you for it. I hate the trend for a long list of reasons, especially for those situations where someone tries to send me to an hour long TED talk when a single line comment about something I'm already aware of will do. I will follow that link some time later.
Back on topic, I don't actually know how much damage the education funding cuts from Reagan onwards did but it looks like a hell of a lot. More typos in newspapers etc may just be due to staff cuts but the end result is hard to distinguish from idiocracy.
If it's not convenient then people are going to have stupid passwords, and they are going to write the passwords down in a text file and sync it over dropbox.
The best method is to write passwords on a post-it note attached to your monitor. Hackers will never be able to read those.
Unless the pills come with a warning less than two sentences long in large print explaining WHY the instructions should be followed*, this will hurt more people than it will save
You missed the headline - it's not in the USA:)
They didn't get the same "no child left behind" or "ebonics" cut-price education that would require what you suggest.
Most of the "green" credit in politics here comes from shutting down stuff that has reached it's end of life anyway or getting close to it and getting free publicity for something that would be done anyway. Keeping that old plant going would mean serious rebuilds. Remember it's not just reactors - there's a lot of pipework under stress that doesn't last forever. The real decision was made years ago because you can't have a civilian nuclear industry without building a reactor every few years so that the skillsets are not lost - so the choice was made to halt and we're seeing nothing but the tail of what was. Outside India, China and Russia the civilian nuclear industry is effectively dead and would require a very expensive restart before anything better than early 1980s technology (AP1000) can happen.
They are doing piece-work and are effectively employees with a just a tax evading fiction to prevent them from being employees.
As for tipping, the whole concept of being able to drive wages down to well below the poverty line because charity from customers bridges the gap kind of creeps me out in the first place - I didn't grow up in that sort of society. If they are poor enough to need the charity of strangers to make a living then tip I suppose. If they don't need your charity then that tip is not essential even if it is expected.
Where is my "lie"? To simplify it even more - Vox Day was pissed off with various forms of writing winning awards and suggested a voting "slate" of things he did like. Things progressed from that. What is incorrect about that description of events?
The entire point here is that people are assuming the author's politics are the same as that of a fictional wizard and I gave an example of how that assumption can happen. See the posts above mine to get an idea of why my post was written.
I think people saw that annoying "science is religion" first impression and took it as the authors personal politics being shoved down the reader's throats instead of a one-off thing to define the setting - hence the post that kicked off the thread in the first place.
When that turns up on page one it is not clear if the character is being an asshole, the author is pushing an agenda (my initial incorrect guess hence getting pissed off) or something else is going on. Thus the confusion of people between the politics of the author (which I think the poster way above has imagined and the rest of us don't really know) and the politics of the character. Does that make sense yet?
Context. Read the post above mine and you'll see that I was referring to the difference between the authors supposed politics and what the characters get up to.
Initially it appeared that the author was pushing an agenda from page one as would be done in a anti-science polemic, which is not what I was interested in reading - so I was very annoyed. However it was the character. I am of course referring to the post above mine with the line you "know" he's got right of center politics? and how it is difficult to "know" based on fiction and how it often doesn't really matter anyway. Does it make sense now that you know the context?
Really? Quote from my post where I am writing about the "right message". It's amusing that mentioning a wide range of "messages" is being labelled as restrictive - please act your age.
Easy, just read Vox Days page for details. Hatred of fiction that mentions women, gays, politics from anywhere other than the far right or people of ethnic groups from other than a few from the north of Europe is the relevant bit. The real problem however is that bullshit similar to grubby undergraduate student politics has blighted the Hugos. I'd see it as a just as much of a problem if a far left group did the same - as ironically has been the accusation by a few as if the kickback happened before the thing it kicked back against.
How about this - since you keep whining about SJW strawmen what do you think about preventing both them and the right wing loonies from inflicting grubby politics on the award? Or will that get in the way of people you like being able to play grubby politics?
Why the fuck has a left wing political view have need to be pushed in an awards meant for best scifi/fantasy
It isn't It's just that there is a lot of stuff published with that viewpoint and some of it won awards, just as has happened for years. Vox Day and others stepped in the try to "correct" that and argue that only things conforming to their ideology deserved awards instead of just what people enjoyed reading.
Some people have been pretending the kickback against Vox Day etc was how it was before - that's dishonest.
Factional bullshit from grubby student politics infested the Hugos whether one faction was worse than another, whether splits happened or whatever. All of those "puppies" were a plague, Vox Day faction or not.
Backwards. The puppies were pissed off about the number of things out there from demographics other than their own, went on a verbal attack and used peer pressure to form a voting block. The idiot puppies didn't get that if they don't like gay, lesbian, whatever fiction they can just ignore it.
Early in his first Dresden files book he says something about "the modern religion that is science" - I just about threw the book at the wall. Is it the character being an asshole or the author? I think that's where people get the impression of his politics when it's probably just the character.
It looked more Roman set in the future to me than anything else, and it seemed description instead of advocacy. Personally I think those who see it as fascist should read at least a little bit about earlier history. There's some popular novels that represent Roman society accurately. Perhaps reading "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" immediately afterwards, as I did recently, is also a good antidote for taking away an impression of advocacy of fascism from Heinlien.
Until now where a bunch have turned up with what is effectively "how to vote cards" - which is why people are pissed off about that bunch.
Basically what is indistinguishable from grubby and petty student politics has hit the Hugos. Left wing and right wing are not the issue, a bunch of low rent political hacks manipulating things is the issue no matter what breed of politics they screech.
Speaking of Nigeria, one interesting little thing leaked in the Manning cables was an oil company exec in Nigeria refusing to disclose commercial information to a US intelligence group because they were worried that it would leak.
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Looks like one kid didn't get to learn much modern history :(
Ah, a link to a video as a reply - how postliterate of you!
More seriously, one of my pet hates is links to videos without context but that's just me so I don't actually think less of you for it. I hate the trend for a long list of reasons, especially for those situations where someone tries to send me to an hour long TED talk when a single line comment about something I'm already aware of will do.
I will follow that link some time later.
Back on topic, I don't actually know how much damage the education funding cuts from Reagan onwards did but it looks like a hell of a lot. More typos in newspapers etc may just be due to staff cuts but the end result is hard to distinguish from idiocracy.
Finally, a use for that authentication stuffup that left most Office365 accounts wide open.
The best method is to write passwords on a post-it note attached to your monitor. Hackers will never be able to read those.
For best security attach the note to a 120 inch monitor:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
You missed the headline - it's not in the USA :)
They didn't get the same "no child left behind" or "ebonics" cut-price education that would require what you suggest.
Most of the "green" credit in politics here comes from shutting down stuff that has reached it's end of life anyway or getting close to it and getting free publicity for something that would be done anyway. Keeping that old plant going would mean serious rebuilds. Remember it's not just reactors - there's a lot of pipework under stress that doesn't last forever.
The real decision was made years ago because you can't have a civilian nuclear industry without building a reactor every few years so that the skillsets are not lost - so the choice was made to halt and we're seeing nothing but the tail of what was. Outside India, China and Russia the civilian nuclear industry is effectively dead and would require a very expensive restart before anything better than early 1980s technology (AP1000) can happen.
Yes but Mussolini didn't provide Roman style rule did he - just like the Tsars were not really Caesar.
Fair enough, but what do you say about my point in the second paragraph?
I'm more pissed off with a group of political hacks pushing their "slate" and asking people to vote for stuff unread than their actual politics.
They are doing piece-work and are effectively employees with a just a tax evading fiction to prevent them from being employees.
As for tipping, the whole concept of being able to drive wages down to well below the poverty line because charity from customers bridges the gap kind of creeps me out in the first place - I didn't grow up in that sort of society.
If they are poor enough to need the charity of strangers to make a living then tip I suppose. If they don't need your charity then that tip is not essential even if it is expected.
Where is my "lie"?
To simplify it even more - Vox Day was pissed off with various forms of writing winning awards and suggested a voting "slate" of things he did like. Things progressed from that.
What is incorrect about that description of events?
The entire point here is that people are assuming the author's politics are the same as that of a fictional wizard and I gave an example of how that assumption can happen. See the posts above mine to get an idea of why my post was written.
I think people saw that annoying "science is religion" first impression and took it as the authors personal politics being shoved down the reader's throats instead of a one-off thing to define the setting - hence the post that kicked off the thread in the first place.
When that turns up on page one it is not clear if the character is being an asshole, the author is pushing an agenda (my initial incorrect guess hence getting pissed off) or something else is going on. Thus the confusion of people between the politics of the author (which I think the poster way above has imagined and the rest of us don't really know) and the politics of the character. Does that make sense yet?
Context. Read the post above mine and you'll see that I was referring to the difference between the authors supposed politics and what the characters get up to.
Initially it appeared that the author was pushing an agenda from page one as would be done in a anti-science polemic, which is not what I was interested in reading - so I was very annoyed.
However it was the character.
I am of course referring to the post above mine with the line you "know" he's got right of center politics? and how it is difficult to "know" based on fiction and how it often doesn't really matter anyway.
Does it make sense now that you know the context?
Really? Quote from my post where I am writing about the "right message".
It's amusing that mentioning a wide range of "messages" is being labelled as restrictive - please act your age.
Please tell me more about the puppy demographics.
Easy, just read Vox Days page for details.
Hatred of fiction that mentions women, gays, politics from anywhere other than the far right or people of ethnic groups from other than a few from the north of Europe is the relevant bit.
The real problem however is that bullshit similar to grubby undergraduate student politics has blighted the Hugos. I'd see it as a just as much of a problem if a far left group did the same - as ironically has been the accusation by a few as if the kickback happened before the thing it kicked back against.
How about this - since you keep whining about SJW strawmen what do you think about preventing both them and the right wing loonies from inflicting grubby politics on the award? Or will that get in the way of people you like being able to play grubby politics?
Looks like there is some factional voting shit going on here too.
That is your OPINION and does not make me a liar in any way.
Why so incredibly thin skinned?
It isn't
It's just that there is a lot of stuff published with that viewpoint and some of it won awards, just as has happened for years. Vox Day and others stepped in the try to "correct" that and argue that only things conforming to their ideology deserved awards instead of just what people enjoyed reading.
Some people have been pretending the kickback against Vox Day etc was how it was before - that's dishonest.
Factional bullshit from grubby student politics infested the Hugos whether one faction was worse than another, whether splits happened or whatever. All of those "puppies" were a plague, Vox Day faction or not.
Backwards. The puppies were pissed off about the number of things out there from demographics other than their own, went on a verbal attack and used peer pressure to form a voting block. The idiot puppies didn't get that if they don't like gay, lesbian, whatever fiction they can just ignore it.
Early in his first Dresden files book he says something about "the modern religion that is science" - I just about threw the book at the wall. Is it the character being an asshole or the author?
I think that's where people get the impression of his politics when it's probably just the character.
It looked more Roman set in the future to me than anything else, and it seemed description instead of advocacy. Personally I think those who see it as fascist should read at least a little bit about earlier history. There's some popular novels that represent Roman society accurately.
Perhaps reading "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" immediately afterwards, as I did recently, is also a good antidote for taking away an impression of advocacy of fascism from Heinlien.
Until now where a bunch have turned up with what is effectively "how to vote cards" - which is why people are pissed off about that bunch.
Basically what is indistinguishable from grubby and petty student politics has hit the Hugos. Left wing and right wing are not the issue, a bunch of low rent political hacks manipulating things is the issue no matter what breed of politics they screech.
Speaking of Nigeria, one interesting little thing leaked in the Manning cables was an oil company exec in Nigeria refusing to disclose commercial information to a US intelligence group because they were worried that it would leak.