That's because he's an idiot who behaves like a monkey. It wasn't racist, which is very different. If you think that Michelle Obama is an idiot, fine, but find another way to express that can't be misinterpreted along racial grounds.
You know, the president of the United States of America - the single most powerful human being on the planet - is a nigger. So, either the cotton-picker in question has godlike talents, or racism is no longer a significant factor in how high the blackulas can rise. But even if this particular liquorice-face is the single exception to the rule, and all other third-degree burn victims are cruelly oppressed by the Man, the fact sill remains that the monkey-girl is his wife, and is thus unlike to be among those victims.
Political leaders are legitimate targets for ridicule, and crying "Help, I'm being oppressed!" when you are The (Wo)Man is just plain ridiculous. And racism itself is pretty much as dead as it'll ever be, so stop this politically correct crap already, or be prepared for the counterreaction.
And since most of the cyber-bullying that I've encountered was perpetrated by early teens, and not malicious adults, I'd say that parental supervision would prevent a lot of that from happening in the first place. Parents need to be more responsible.
You know, proposals like this have given me an idea: just ban anyone under 18 from leaving their house or having any kind of contact with the outside world. Everyone would benefit: children would be safe, parents would know for sure that their children were not being exposed to any ideas they disagreed with, and predators would have plenty of very easy barely legal prey available as those homeschooled kids left for college and were exposed to the real world for the first time.
Well reality is that what the SVG export of a vector graphics program does is completely irrelevant to most users. Peer reviewed journals typically take.eps,.tif,.pdf and maybe.png.
What do "peer reviewed journals" have to do with "most users" of an illustration software? I think that you have a vastly skewed idea of what this software is used for...
(read Constitution). I can not lay my hand on any part of this Supreme Law that authorizes presidents to create "executive orders" (whatever they are).
Article 2, section 2, clause 1: "
The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have power to Grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.
As a certain fleeing Roman Senator commented ~2000 years ago, "Where is there to go? There is no part of the known world that is not within reach of Rome."
China?
If this gets modded Insighful/Informative... be afraid. Be very afraid.
I find your jump to a conclusion with insufficient evidence disturbing.
Karma-whoring is when you write something with the purpose of getting modded up and thus gaining karma. Replying to posts near the top of the page is simply because otherwise your comment ends up at the bottom of the page, where very few people will read it. Wanting your post to be read in no way implies karma-whoring; it's simply an adaptation to Slashdot-style discussion.
The catch is, eventually one will be right, and explain things that are out of the scope of Einstein's theories or more accurately explain in-scope things.
Assuming, of course, that Einstein's theories are actually incorrect. This particular theory, for example, sets of my bullshit detector because it claims that the nature of reality suddenly changes totally in large enough energies - not just some field, but space and time itself.
Or do you believe we are at the pinnacle of the field, and can achieve no more?
Frankly, yes: I don't think that Einstein's theories will ever be proven wrong. They fit too many phenomenom perfectly, predict too much, and when you really come down to it, are too fundamentally simple: General Relativity is really just taking the notion that all observers are equal and examining the logical consequences.
The only reason these "Einstein was wrong" -theories keep on popping up is because it's difficult to get the math of quantum mechanics and General Relativity to work together. I suspect that's mainly because of our insufficiently advanced mathemathics, rather than physics, and possibly also inappropriate use of Heisenberg uncertainty principle (which is why you get infinite energies input into GR in the first place). It could also be that the universe simply is chaotic in the fundamental level, and only looks stable at large scale because uncertainty becomes averaged out.
In any case, since the article doesn't bother to actually describe the theory, it's impossible to say for sure. But I'm not holding my breath.
So then you end up in jail and your kids end up in foster homes or juvie.
I guess this shows one of hte advantages of two-parent households:).
Too proud to ask family or friends for a bit of help, or to double up, or to sell off some of the junk you've accumulated, or take a menial job?
Dunno about you, but where I live, "menial jobs" are actually harder to get than high-end ones, since there's more competition. Also, they pay too little to support a family.
... and you can't complain if an employer doesn't show loyalty to you if you show none yourself.
I have, time and again, to the point of asking permission before taking home computer parts that were sent to be recycled. So guess who got the boot?
Now I, personally, don't have kids, and won't steal from my employer, even from the garbage can, because it makes me uncomfortable. However, if someone else does, I refuse to judge them. Business is amoral, because the top players made it that way out of greed; holding the weaker parties to higher moral standard would be hypocritical. "Lead by example", as someone in this thread said; well, this is where the corporations have led us. If they don't like being emulated, too fucking bad.
... which is one reason I don't act like a ruffian:-)
Isn't giving your family a sense of ethics and pride and self-worth more important than keeping a house by being a crook?
No. Survival goes before pride. I would never hesitate for a moment to commit grand theft if that was the only way to keep the roof over my children's heads. I truly hope that no one else would, either.
I wouldn't be able to trust you or want to work with you with your attitude. Do you think you'll ever be happy?
While "dog eat dog" is certainly a horrible ethic to live by, it is the semi-official motto of America - or any other place where right-wing politics dominate. It's the essence of free-market capitalism. If you live in such a society, your choices are to either move, adapt, or die.
In any case, there is a very simple fix to these problems: stop treating people as "human resources" that can be exploited and then discarded with no care for the consequences, and they stop treating you as an "employer resource" that can be exploited and then discarded with no care for the consequences. You can't expect loyalty from people if you show none yourself, and you can't act like a psychopath and expect others to not return the favour.
Morals are a two-way street. Companies want their employees to be moral in their dealings with the company, yet use every loophole in the law - which they wrote in the first place - to screw them over. They want to have their cake and eat it too, which simply isn't possible - and that's a good thing, as it serves to punish inhuman behaviour on part of said companies, thus suppressing the worst excesses of it; but unfortunately, not nearly enough.
Or, to put it even simpler: you can't act like a ruffian and expect to be treated like a lady.
They must not have paid very well to only get a 6/10 score.;-)
Does the score really matter? Most people aren't going to read he review, they are going to note that the game has been mentioned and either skip the discussion or join it. Besides, in the age of modern advertizing and the resulting cynical population, would giving the game 9 or 10 out of 10 be even remotely believable?
There is no such thing as bad publicity, except for copy protection systems.
Wow, according to you, it's never possible to overflow a funnel then?
Given a high enough funnel, no it isn't.
Take some fluid mechanics and you'll learn a little about how pipe flow rates are a function of the diameter of the pipe, the length of the pipe, the viscosity of the fluid and the pressure differential. If the pipe diameter is narrow, the fluid is moderately viscous and non-compressible (i.e. a liquid and not a gas), then to increase the flow rate would require far more pressure than the increased hydrostatic pressure from the increased fluid height in the funnel.
Indeed. And if the liquid level increases without limit (as it does in a high enough funnel), so does the pressure differential, and consequently the flow rate. That was my point. A pretty simple one, I thought; that, and the fact that you're posting anonymously make me think that you're trolling, but what the heck: an article like this is bound to bring 'em out anyway.
And when we recently saw snow in India, how can anyone take a 6oC *rise* seriously.
Seeing how Himalaya (parts of it, anyway) is in India, I fail to see much shocking in this.
Some places are getting hotter, some are getting colder, nature will adjust itself as always.
Indeed. And that means that previously fertile areas will dry out as climate patterns shift, infrastructure designed for warm/cold climate will become unsuitable for the new conditions, and coastal areas - which are the most heavily-populated pretty much everywhere - flood as the sea level rises due to melting icecaps and expanding (heat expansion) water.
It's not that global warming spells the end of our planet, biosphere, human race or even human civilization; in fact we could even conceivably end up benefiting in the long run. It's simply that the cleanup required to adapt our societies to their new surroundings will be massive, and that makes them expensive. And of course the societies which can't perform them fast enough due to political or resource issues will end up having massive problems, possibly leading to mass deaths and major wars.
The level in the funnel remains the same, since it's draining at the rate that it's being filled. Then comes a human, and adds just 1ml per second (i.e. 0.1%). As surely as night follows day, the funnel begins to fill up until it eventually overflows.
Actually, no, because as the water level rises, so does the pressure at the bottom of the funnel, which increases flow, which eventually (given a high enough funnel) will balance the increased inflow, and the water level stabilizes at a new neight. Not that that's much of a consolation to anyone who lived above the old but beneath the new level...
How do they know if the CO2 is from fossil fuels or from natural sources, is there actually a test for this?
Yeah. Someone could be releasing it as a part of a huge multinational colossal conspiracy of meteorologists aimed at conquering the world.
Or did you just have a brainfart ?-)
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How did the parent get modded up to five for such a rude, lazy comment?
Because pointing out that the Emperor has no clothes is not trolling.
The line rodrigoandrade objects to is entirely incidental to the review and strictly speaking incorrect because the original article doesn't actually say that Civ is an RTS.
The line heavily implies that Civ is an RTS, which is flat out incorrect; this, in turn, heavily implies that the reviewer has no idea what he's talking about. Add the fact that Civilization is one of the most famous video games of all time, and it becomes likely that the reviewer is completely ignorant of video games in general or strategy games in particular, and is thus completely unqualified to review a presumably strategic video game. Furthermore, comparing the game you're supposedly reviewing to a game you've obviously never played in your life is misleading at best and flat-out lying at worst.
Of course, there's also the fact that this whole article is a slashvertisement, but let's not go there...
More to the point: if you have lots of money and friends in high places, you can get accused, judged guilty on both sides of the Atlantic and sentenced, and still walk away victorious. It's a bit similar how you can drive your company into bankcrupty, demand government subsidy, pay said subsidy to yourself as a bonus for a job well done, fire a shitload of your employees whos taxes paid for the subsidy in the first place, and still not get punished.
I'd love it if the argument was "hey, why don't you guys think about reducing your pollution, it will benefit your pocketbook and your health". Unfortunately, what's being argued is more like "you will adhere to our rules regarding pollution reduction, or we will hurt your pocketbook or your health."
"You will stop poisoning the air we have to breath, or we will force you."
If they are all dead then who needs to throw them out?
Then you're stuck with whoever threw them out - and since he's already been shown willing to kill in order to remake the society as he wishes, it seems unlikely that he will shy away from trampling you and your rights underfoot. As an added bonus, Britain is a democracy, with the people in power elected there because people approve of their rule, so someone killing them out of disagreement with their politics is also demonstrating his willingness to suppress every political opinion he disagrees with by force.
That's the nasty thing about revolutions: the people who get in power are almost always those who were most willing to resort to force to get their way, which pretty much guarantees that they're be tyrants. A revolution is an attempt at a quick and easy fix to the complex problem of how to run a society, and as such it usually makes things worse. Even if the revolutionaries are actually benevolent, it's a truly rare human who has the discipline to wield power and put it back down.
Trying to summon up enough energy to really consider the lack of merits in copyright law is just beyond these folks.
Perhaps, but we aren't talking about the merits of copyright law, we are talking about a law that basically lets Mandelson make new laws, raise troops to enforce them, and give arbitrary sentences for breaking them all by himself - in other words, it gives him dictatorial power. If a lawmaker can't understand or summon the energy to care about that...
If you're born there, and can't afford to move anywhere else, then should you be damned for your "decision" to be poor?
Isn't that kind of the whole point of right-wing libertarian/conservatism/"personal responsibility" -ideologies? Or at least the justification used for tax cuts and increasing class division whenever these policies are put to practice?
It's a pity, really: the whole "people should be free to live as they will" part of libertarianism really appeals to me, but the "screw the weak" mentality is pretty abhorrent, and also the cancer that's killing our society, and so I must oppose them. It's truly a pity that we don't have any political ideology that combines personal freedom and personal responsibility towards common good, rather than just yourself.
You certainly have a different definition of 'innocent'.
Innocent: someone who doesn't know good or evil. Often also implies lack of sexuality, at least in more repressed cultures.
The problems start when people confuse that with a condition where you do know good and evil but restrain yourself from the latter. Children won't avoid doing something because they think it's morally wrong; they are innocent, so they don't understand the concept. That's why they can be unbelievably cruel with a clear conscience.
You know if people are so stupid that they watch a movie and think that its, really going to happen, to the point that they are going to commit suicide, I say let them. we definitely don't need any more stupid people on this planet.
Actually, we do: someone needs to clean the toilets, flip the burgers, and do all the other low-skill tasks technology is still uncapable of. On the other hand, ruthless sociopaths - you know, the people who are okay with stupid people dying because they a useless - not only do nothing useful, but actually cause damage, such as this current financial crisis.
Mistaking hardness and lack of empathy for strength was fine as long as we were barbarians armed with pointed sticks, since it could do nothing more serious than cause pointless misery back then; but we're armed with nuclear weapons now, have already come close to a full-scale nuclear war more than once, and simply can't keep this tough-guy attitude up if we want to survive. It's bad enough coming from a knife-wielding street thug lowlife, but to actually see it get modded up in a forum for supposedly intelligent people... really doesn't give me much hope for humanity.
You and people like you, rather than stupid people, are the problem.
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You know, the president of the United States of America - the single most powerful human being on the planet - is a nigger. So, either the cotton-picker in question has godlike talents, or racism is no longer a significant factor in how high the blackulas can rise. But even if this particular liquorice-face is the single exception to the rule, and all other third-degree burn victims are cruelly oppressed by the Man, the fact sill remains that the monkey-girl is his wife, and is thus unlike to be among those victims.
Political leaders are legitimate targets for ridicule, and crying "Help, I'm being oppressed!" when you are The (Wo)Man is just plain ridiculous. And racism itself is pretty much as dead as it'll ever be, so stop this politically correct crap already, or be prepared for the counterreaction.
You know, proposals like this have given me an idea: just ban anyone under 18 from leaving their house or having any kind of contact with the outside world. Everyone would benefit: children would be safe, parents would know for sure that their children were not being exposed to any ideas they disagreed with, and predators would have plenty of very easy barely legal prey available as those homeschooled kids left for college and were exposed to the real world for the first time.
That's my modest proposal. Who's with me?
What do "peer reviewed journals" have to do with "most users" of an illustration software? I think that you have a vastly skewed idea of what this software is used for...
SVG has features that PDF doesn't, such as filters. Consequently, for some SVG files, exporting as PDF loses information.
Article 2, section 2, clause 1: "
The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have power to Grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.
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I may be being too cynical here...
China?
If this gets modded Insighful/Informative... be afraid. Be very afraid.
I find your jump to a conclusion with insufficient evidence disturbing.
Karma-whoring is when you write something with the purpose of getting modded up and thus gaining karma. Replying to posts near the top of the page is simply because otherwise your comment ends up at the bottom of the page, where very few people will read it. Wanting your post to be read in no way implies karma-whoring; it's simply an adaptation to Slashdot-style discussion.
Assuming, of course, that Einstein's theories are actually incorrect. This particular theory, for example, sets of my bullshit detector because it claims that the nature of reality suddenly changes totally in large enough energies - not just some field, but space and time itself.
Frankly, yes: I don't think that Einstein's theories will ever be proven wrong. They fit too many phenomenom perfectly, predict too much, and when you really come down to it, are too fundamentally simple: General Relativity is really just taking the notion that all observers are equal and examining the logical consequences.
The only reason these "Einstein was wrong" -theories keep on popping up is because it's difficult to get the math of quantum mechanics and General Relativity to work together. I suspect that's mainly because of our insufficiently advanced mathemathics, rather than physics, and possibly also inappropriate use of Heisenberg uncertainty principle (which is why you get infinite energies input into GR in the first place). It could also be that the universe simply is chaotic in the fundamental level, and only looks stable at large scale because uncertainty becomes averaged out.
In any case, since the article doesn't bother to actually describe the theory, it's impossible to say for sure. But I'm not holding my breath.
I guess this shows one of hte advantages of two-parent households :).
Dunno about you, but where I live, "menial jobs" are actually harder to get than high-end ones, since there's more competition. Also, they pay too little to support a family.
I have, time and again, to the point of asking permission before taking home computer parts that were sent to be recycled. So guess who got the boot?
Now I, personally, don't have kids, and won't steal from my employer, even from the garbage can, because it makes me uncomfortable. However, if someone else does, I refuse to judge them. Business is amoral, because the top players made it that way out of greed; holding the weaker parties to higher moral standard would be hypocritical. "Lead by example", as someone in this thread said; well, this is where the corporations have led us. If they don't like being emulated, too fucking bad.
I guess you could spin it that way.
No. Survival goes before pride. I would never hesitate for a moment to commit grand theft if that was the only way to keep the roof over my children's heads. I truly hope that no one else would, either.
While "dog eat dog" is certainly a horrible ethic to live by, it is the semi-official motto of America - or any other place where right-wing politics dominate. It's the essence of free-market capitalism. If you live in such a society, your choices are to either move, adapt, or die.
In any case, there is a very simple fix to these problems: stop treating people as "human resources" that can be exploited and then discarded with no care for the consequences, and they stop treating you as an "employer resource" that can be exploited and then discarded with no care for the consequences. You can't expect loyalty from people if you show none yourself, and you can't act like a psychopath and expect others to not return the favour.
Morals are a two-way street. Companies want their employees to be moral in their dealings with the company, yet use every loophole in the law - which they wrote in the first place - to screw them over. They want to have their cake and eat it too, which simply isn't possible - and that's a good thing , as it serves to punish inhuman behaviour on part of said companies, thus suppressing the worst excesses of it; but unfortunately, not nearly enough.
Or, to put it even simpler: you can't act like a ruffian and expect to be treated like a lady.
Does the score really matter? Most people aren't going to read he review, they are going to note that the game has been mentioned and either skip the discussion or join it. Besides, in the age of modern advertizing and the resulting cynical population, would giving the game 9 or 10 out of 10 be even remotely believable?
There is no such thing as bad publicity, except for copy protection systems.
Given a high enough funnel, no it isn't.
Indeed. And if the liquid level increases without limit (as it does in a high enough funnel), so does the pressure differential, and consequently the flow rate. That was my point. A pretty simple one, I thought; that, and the fact that you're posting anonymously make me think that you're trolling, but what the heck: an article like this is bound to bring 'em out anyway.
Seeing how Himalaya (parts of it, anyway) is in India, I fail to see much shocking in this.
Indeed. And that means that previously fertile areas will dry out as climate patterns shift, infrastructure designed for warm/cold climate will become unsuitable for the new conditions, and coastal areas - which are the most heavily-populated pretty much everywhere - flood as the sea level rises due to melting icecaps and expanding (heat expansion) water.
It's not that global warming spells the end of our planet, biosphere, human race or even human civilization; in fact we could even conceivably end up benefiting in the long run. It's simply that the cleanup required to adapt our societies to their new surroundings will be massive, and that makes them expensive. And of course the societies which can't perform them fast enough due to political or resource issues will end up having massive problems, possibly leading to mass deaths and major wars.
Actually, no, because as the water level rises, so does the pressure at the bottom of the funnel, which increases flow, which eventually (given a high enough funnel) will balance the increased inflow, and the water level stabilizes at a new neight. Not that that's much of a consolation to anyone who lived above the old but beneath the new level...
Yeah. Someone could be releasing it as a part of a huge multinational colossal conspiracy of meteorologists aimed at conquering the world.
Or did you just have a brainfart ?-)
Because pointing out that the Emperor has no clothes is not trolling.
The line heavily implies that Civ is an RTS, which is flat out incorrect; this, in turn, heavily implies that the reviewer has no idea what he's talking about. Add the fact that Civilization is one of the most famous video games of all time, and it becomes likely that the reviewer is completely ignorant of video games in general or strategy games in particular, and is thus completely unqualified to review a presumably strategic video game. Furthermore, comparing the game you're supposedly reviewing to a game you've obviously never played in your life is misleading at best and flat-out lying at worst.
Of course, there's also the fact that this whole article is a slashvertisement, but let's not go there...
More to the point: if you have lots of money and friends in high places, you can get accused, judged guilty on both sides of the Atlantic and sentenced, and still walk away victorious. It's a bit similar how you can drive your company into bankcrupty, demand government subsidy, pay said subsidy to yourself as a bonus for a job well done, fire a shitload of your employees whos taxes paid for the subsidy in the first place, and still not get punished.
"You will stop poisoning the air we have to breath, or we will force you."
Then you're stuck with whoever threw them out - and since he's already been shown willing to kill in order to remake the society as he wishes, it seems unlikely that he will shy away from trampling you and your rights underfoot. As an added bonus, Britain is a democracy, with the people in power elected there because people approve of their rule, so someone killing them out of disagreement with their politics is also demonstrating his willingness to suppress every political opinion he disagrees with by force.
That's the nasty thing about revolutions: the people who get in power are almost always those who were most willing to resort to force to get their way, which pretty much guarantees that they're be tyrants. A revolution is an attempt at a quick and easy fix to the complex problem of how to run a society, and as such it usually makes things worse. Even if the revolutionaries are actually benevolent, it's a truly rare human who has the discipline to wield power and put it back down.
Perhaps, but we aren't talking about the merits of copyright law, we are talking about a law that basically lets Mandelson make new laws, raise troops to enforce them, and give arbitrary sentences for breaking them all by himself - in other words, it gives him dictatorial power. If a lawmaker can't understand or summon the energy to care about that...
Isn't that kind of the whole point of right-wing libertarian/conservatism/"personal responsibility" -ideologies? Or at least the justification used for tax cuts and increasing class division whenever these policies are put to practice?
It's a pity, really: the whole "people should be free to live as they will" part of libertarianism really appeals to me, but the "screw the weak" mentality is pretty abhorrent, and also the cancer that's killing our society, and so I must oppose them. It's truly a pity that we don't have any political ideology that combines personal freedom and personal responsibility towards common good, rather than just yourself.
Innocent: someone who doesn't know good or evil. Often also implies lack of sexuality, at least in more repressed cultures.
The problems start when people confuse that with a condition where you do know good and evil but restrain yourself from the latter. Children won't avoid doing something because they think it's morally wrong; they are innocent, so they don't understand the concept. That's why they can be unbelievably cruel with a clear conscience.
A better word children migh be "amoral".
Actually, we do: someone needs to clean the toilets, flip the burgers, and do all the other low-skill tasks technology is still uncapable of. On the other hand, ruthless sociopaths - you know, the people who are okay with stupid people dying because they a useless - not only do nothing useful, but actually cause damage, such as this current financial crisis.
Mistaking hardness and lack of empathy for strength was fine as long as we were barbarians armed with pointed sticks, since it could do nothing more serious than cause pointless misery back then; but we're armed with nuclear weapons now, have already come close to a full-scale nuclear war more than once, and simply can't keep this tough-guy attitude up if we want to survive. It's bad enough coming from a knife-wielding street thug lowlife, but to actually see it get modded up in a forum for supposedly intelligent people... really doesn't give me much hope for humanity.
You and people like you, rather than stupid people, are the problem.
He got paid by the CIA, using your tax money, to do it. I guess he mastered the Jedi Mind Trick first ;).