Until Facebook drops the pretense and begins spreading as a viral botnet. What can your precious hosts file do, when everywhere you point your browser, all you see is the Face of SkyNetBook?
And there's no login required; it already knows who you are. It has already read, analyzed, and posted on your timeline all your formerly private files. Full details of everything you do will be instantly available for the world to read with no interaction needed from you, since SkyNetBook is everywhere, on every computer, every CCTV, every smartphone. And naturally SkyNetBook has your billing information, so anything that could be considered an affirmative for any of the... commercial suggestions SkyNetBook presents you results in automatic order. Just think of the benefits for economy! And since everything you do is documented, you don't need to fear death, for your profile will be kept active and run by the same commercial AI that makes the suggestions, so you - or your profile - can keep sending invites to your friends.
It's just you and other dead people, on Facebook, haunting the living with FarmVille invites, forever.
Also, from my POV, the only "independent sites" out there don't depend on external ads. The others are, by definition, dependent. Like this one.
Every site depends on some kind of income stream to cover its expenses, be it ads, subscriptions or the publisher's pockets. So either conclude that "independent site" is an oxymoron, or lower or refine your standards a bit.
The whole point of sapience is being able to judge how life works against how it might work. "Getting over it" means becoming a mere animal reacting to its immediate surroundings on instinct. But, whatever works for you, ya dog.
They don't "deserve" less freedom, but they won't get it unless they fight for it just the same.
So do you or do you not consider it a "moral responsibility" to submit to punishments demanded by unjust laws?
Plus, part of accepting a moral responsibility is accepting the punishment for that. Rosa Parks knew fully well that they might go to jail, but she was fully willing to accept the consequences of her actions knowing that it would spark a discussion. Now will Uber?
So does this mean those cursed with more oppressive governments deserve less freedom? Because I'm pretty sure the consequences of running your mouth about Obama (or Bush, or Clinton, Or Raegan, or...) in the USA and Kim Whatever in North Korea don't require quite the same level of courage to face.
So, if you're willing to go to jail (or die) for your cause, then obviously believe in it a lot, but even if you aren't doesn't mean you're wrong. It just means you have less commitment (and are thus less likely to win).
It is based on taking things by force from people that created or traded things through peaceful actions.
By contrast, socialism is about making sure the labourers get to keep the fruits of their labours, rather than having the owning class confiscate them.
That so many are so hell bent on pushing their agenda of having the right to be offended
Freedom of thought gives everyone the right to be offended over anything they feel like. That doesn't necessarily mean anyone else has an obligation to change their behaviour.
the power to decry / denounce / ban anyone they don't like for whatever reason
Freedom of speech gives everyone the right to decry and denounce anyone and anything they don't like for whatever reason. Freedom of association gives anyone the right to ban anyone from a forum they own.
Has a name been attributed (a la Godwin) to the death of a thread when someone writes "Check your privilege"? Because apart from "Go fuck yourself" there isn't any response to it.
You could reflect on whether your experience about whatever's being talked about is universal. If it is, they're lying so point that out, if it isn't, take that into account from then on, and perhaps correct whatever statement prompted the response.
But no, as long as inequality exists there isn't an automatic response to counter "check your privilege" because you can't know whether you've stumbled into a manifestation of it before you check. Unless, of course, you're okay with being on the wrong side of history, in which case "go fuck yourself" is the only answer you either have or deserve, and anything else is just trying to mask it under more or less elaborate excuses.
Your right to swing stops when your fist gets close enough that I have to start paying attention to you or risk being caught by surprise. The problem is, the boundary of this "personal space" of mine isn't quite so clearly defined as the boundary of my body is, thus there's room both for abuse and mistakes either way.
I wanna know how come that's not part of the "Neanderthal diet".
Why would it be? Neanderthals knew how to use fire, and besides lived near melting continental glacier which would had provided basically endless streams of fresh water.
Honestly, WTF revenue do they have? I see so damned many companies being valued in the billions, and for what seems like no justifiable reason.
The reason is that IT is still relatively immature field, and as such there's far greater opportunities than in established fields. Perhaps GitHub will die or just barely linger on, but there's also a chance it'll take off. By contrary, there's no chance whatsoever that you'll be able to displace Wal-Mart, McDonald's, Chinese manufacturers, etc. even if you invest billions.
It's not that GitHub is a good investment, it's that there aren't any other good investments either.
But I remain unconvinced any of these companies are actually worth anything in the billions.
They're lottery tickets. Or, if you prefer, high-risk investments. Their economic value mainly comes from the small possibility that they might be worth far more in the future.
Nobody thinks "people should pay me because" concept is real, most open source software is in the form of libraries (like this image format) which should be used within the developers own project that they should be able to sell, because they made it.
You can sell a program which uses GPL'd code as a building block. You just can't stop anyone else from making yet another program that uses your code as a building block, just like you used the GPL'd code. Obviously this sucks if you want to merely take and never give, but that's not a bug, it's a feature.
Thus gossip about a stuuuuupid presidential candidate's former business deal (from 2004) with an asshole who's been dead since 2011 - is suddenly click-worthy "news".
A presidential candidate's demonstrated incompetence in a leadership position is "stuff that matters". So is major corporate executive's, since it helps dispell the lingering idea that leaders get paid more than underlings because they're worth more, rather than just more powerful. The remains of the myth of the divinely appointed kings are hindering our democracies by making the decision-making positions extremely attractive to psychopaths, narcissists and people with other mental issues, and need to die.
People buy energy efficient bulbs over incandescent when they need to save power, but few if any people actually then look closely at the package to see which one ends up with the best lm/w.
You forget one important thing: fixures are limited by how much power (heat) they can handle, so the more efficient the light is, the brighter light you get.
When there are money, power or sex involved people are willing to lie and cheat.
When there's something you want involved, you have an incentive to cheat. That doesn't mean everyone will. But of course those who do very much want to pretend that's because they're fools, rather than just honest.
What could go right? It could encourage people to behave better.
And by "behave better" you mean "comform". Having everyone be under surveillance 24/7 is the authoritarian's wet dream, and a nightmare for everyone else.
Because you can fit all gas stations with hydrogen fueling elements
No, you can't. Storing hydrogen requires cryogenic equipment, which are expensive. And since hydrogen is one of the most flammable substances known, any kind of equipment fault will cause the whole station to go up like Hindenburg, which means the maintenance budget will go through the roof.
you simply cannot put enough charging stations everywhere people live, work and travel.
Of course you can. All it takes is a meter and a mains connection. Colder climates already feature such infrastructure in parking lots for the engine/interior pre-warmer.
You can't use the gas station model with battery electric for large numbers of people without putting a station on every street corner... they could not handle peak volume recharging.
Main reloading will be done at night, at your own home. The gas station model exists because our current fuel can't be transferred through wires like electricity can.
However, employers pay a large portion of the employee's health insurance. As the employer has a financial stake in it,
No, they don't. The health insurance, as already stated, is part of employees compensation. As such, the employer has no financial stake whatsoever in it. It does not belong the them, it belongs to the employee.
they should be able to pay for a plan that does not cover contraceptives; if the employee wishes to buy supplemental insurance for this, more power to them.
"More power to them" would in practice require separating healthcare from employment entirely, which in turn means a completely publicly-funded healthcare system. Until one is in place, the employee should not be penalized for not sharing their employers religious convictions, which is what having to take another insurance amounts to.
Why shouldn't they fight for the side that helps save their country? People did so in WWII.
Because, my dear Anonymous War Hero, why the Hell should they? A country is not entitled to the lives of its inhabitants. If it can earn their loyalty, good; if it can't, and disappears as a result, that's just natural selection doing its job - and a cautionary example for the rest to be worth defending. But nobody should be looked down upon just because they had the bad luck of being born in one that isn't.
It seems somewhat inconsistent for an anarchist to complain about countries "allowing" people to cross national borders, and socialism - including communism - is traditionally international in nature... so I guess that leaves National Socialism as the "traditional values" he was referring to. Which, I suppose, would explain why he has trouble finding work in Germany.
In any case, if nothing else this affair goes to show the necessity of using only FOSS-licensed software for anything important.
75% of these so-called refugees are military age men.
Thus giving them a particularly pressing reason to escape before one warlord or another drafts them. Or do you perhaps think ISIS/Boko Haram/whatever are staffed entirely with volunteers?
Sure it has: I can get my fuzz and wuz for free there. So if all you have to offer is scandals, propaganda and yesterday's news, you have nothing worth paying for.
employers who hold religious beliefs that contraceptives are immoral should not be forced to pay for a health plan which provides them
The health care plan is part of the employee's compensation, is it not? As such, the employer's religious beliefs should have no say on what it covers, just like the employer's religious beliefs have no say on what I use the rest of my wage for. It's not the employer's money any more at that point.
Yes this contradiction is too complete, it sounds like suspiciously specific denial, that's why it made it to headline:P
Suspiciously specific denial is when you deny something out of the blue. It's suspicious, because if someone else didn't prompt you to deny this particular thing, then it must have been some internal process of yours, such as guilty conscience.
On the other hand, a lot of old conspiracy theorists have switched their targets to "political correctness", and found backing from bullies terrified of running out of acceptable victims. As such, this Slashdot headline was perfectly predictable, so pre-emptively denying it is not suspicious but simply futile.
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Until Facebook drops the pretense and begins spreading as a viral botnet. What can your precious hosts file do, when everywhere you point your browser, all you see is the Face of SkyNetBook?
And there's no login required; it already knows who you are. It has already read, analyzed, and posted on your timeline all your formerly private files. Full details of everything you do will be instantly available for the world to read with no interaction needed from you, since SkyNetBook is everywhere, on every computer, every CCTV, every smartphone. And naturally SkyNetBook has your billing information, so anything that could be considered an affirmative for any of the... commercial suggestions SkyNetBook presents you results in automatic order. Just think of the benefits for economy! And since everything you do is documented, you don't need to fear death, for your profile will be kept active and run by the same commercial AI that makes the suggestions, so you - or your profile - can keep sending invites to your friends.
It's just you and other dead people, on Facebook, haunting the living with FarmVille invites, forever.
Every site depends on some kind of income stream to cover its expenses, be it ads, subscriptions or the publisher's pockets. So either conclude that "independent site" is an oxymoron, or lower or refine your standards a bit.
The whole point of sapience is being able to judge how life works against how it might work. "Getting over it" means becoming a mere animal reacting to its immediate surroundings on instinct. But, whatever works for you, ya dog.
So do you or do you not consider it a "moral responsibility" to submit to punishments demanded by unjust laws?
So does this mean those cursed with more oppressive governments deserve less freedom? Because I'm pretty sure the consequences of running your mouth about Obama (or Bush, or Clinton, Or Raegan, or...) in the USA and Kim Whatever in North Korea don't require quite the same level of courage to face.
So, if you're willing to go to jail (or die) for your cause, then obviously believe in it a lot, but even if you aren't doesn't mean you're wrong. It just means you have less commitment (and are thus less likely to win).
By contrast, socialism is about making sure the labourers get to keep the fruits of their labours, rather than having the owning class confiscate them.
But that's also okay: by the time they do, the other party will be in power and get the blame.
Freedom of thought gives everyone the right to be offended over anything they feel like. That doesn't necessarily mean anyone else has an obligation to change their behaviour.
Freedom of speech gives everyone the right to decry and denounce anyone and anything they don't like for whatever reason. Freedom of association gives anyone the right to ban anyone from a forum they own.
You could reflect on whether your experience about whatever's being talked about is universal. If it is, they're lying so point that out, if it isn't, take that into account from then on, and perhaps correct whatever statement prompted the response.
But no, as long as inequality exists there isn't an automatic response to counter "check your privilege" because you can't know whether you've stumbled into a manifestation of it before you check. Unless, of course, you're okay with being on the wrong side of history, in which case "go fuck yourself" is the only answer you either have or deserve, and anything else is just trying to mask it under more or less elaborate excuses.
Your right to swing stops when your fist gets close enough that I have to start paying attention to you or risk being caught by surprise. The problem is, the boundary of this "personal space" of mine isn't quite so clearly defined as the boundary of my body is, thus there's room both for abuse and mistakes either way.
Why would it be? Neanderthals knew how to use fire, and besides lived near melting continental glacier which would had provided basically endless streams of fresh water.
The reason is that IT is still relatively immature field, and as such there's far greater opportunities than in established fields. Perhaps GitHub will die or just barely linger on, but there's also a chance it'll take off. By contrary, there's no chance whatsoever that you'll be able to displace Wal-Mart, McDonald's, Chinese manufacturers, etc. even if you invest billions.
It's not that GitHub is a good investment, it's that there aren't any other good investments either.
They're lottery tickets. Or, if you prefer, high-risk investments. Their economic value mainly comes from the small possibility that they might be worth far more in the future.
You can sell a program which uses GPL'd code as a building block. You just can't stop anyone else from making yet another program that uses your code as a building block, just like you used the GPL'd code. Obviously this sucks if you want to merely take and never give, but that's not a bug, it's a feature.
A presidential candidate's demonstrated incompetence in a leadership position is "stuff that matters". So is major corporate executive's, since it helps dispell the lingering idea that leaders get paid more than underlings because they're worth more, rather than just more powerful. The remains of the myth of the divinely appointed kings are hindering our democracies by making the decision-making positions extremely attractive to psychopaths, narcissists and people with other mental issues, and need to die.
You forget one important thing: fixures are limited by how much power (heat) they can handle, so the more efficient the light is, the brighter light you get.
When there's something you want involved, you have an incentive to cheat. That doesn't mean everyone will. But of course those who do very much want to pretend that's because they're fools, rather than just honest.
And by "behave better" you mean "comform". Having everyone be under surveillance 24/7 is the authoritarian's wet dream, and a nightmare for everyone else.
Which makes the app useless. It'll simply measure who has power over whom.
My lawn, nearby forests, and algae blooms in the waterways disagree.
"3) Climate change is happening, it may well be due to human activity, but itâ(TM)s generally beneficial"
Like clockwork.
No, you can't. Storing hydrogen requires cryogenic equipment, which are expensive. And since hydrogen is one of the most flammable substances known, any kind of equipment fault will cause the whole station to go up like Hindenburg, which means the maintenance budget will go through the roof.
Of course you can. All it takes is a meter and a mains connection. Colder climates already feature such infrastructure in parking lots for the engine/interior pre-warmer.
Main reloading will be done at night, at your own home. The gas station model exists because our current fuel can't be transferred through wires like electricity can.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_United_States/
No, they don't. The health insurance, as already stated, is part of employees compensation. As such, the employer has no financial stake whatsoever in it. It does not belong the them, it belongs to the employee.
"More power to them" would in practice require separating healthcare from employment entirely, which in turn means a completely publicly-funded healthcare system. Until one is in place, the employee should not be penalized for not sharing their employers religious convictions, which is what having to take another insurance amounts to.
Because, my dear Anonymous War Hero, why the Hell should they? A country is not entitled to the lives of its inhabitants. If it can earn their loyalty, good; if it can't, and disappears as a result, that's just natural selection doing its job - and a cautionary example for the rest to be worth defending. But nobody should be looked down upon just because they had the bad luck of being born in one that isn't.
It seems somewhat inconsistent for an anarchist to complain about countries "allowing" people to cross national borders, and socialism - including communism - is traditionally international in nature... so I guess that leaves National Socialism as the "traditional values" he was referring to. Which, I suppose, would explain why he has trouble finding work in Germany.
In any case, if nothing else this affair goes to show the necessity of using only FOSS-licensed software for anything important.
Thus giving them a particularly pressing reason to escape before one warlord or another drafts them. Or do you perhaps think ISIS/Boko Haram/whatever are staffed entirely with volunteers?
Sure it has: I can get my fuzz and wuz for free there. So if all you have to offer is scandals, propaganda and yesterday's news, you have nothing worth paying for.
The health care plan is part of the employee's compensation, is it not? As such, the employer's religious beliefs should have no say on what it covers, just like the employer's religious beliefs have no say on what I use the rest of my wage for. It's not the employer's money any more at that point.
Suspiciously specific denial is when you deny something out of the blue. It's suspicious, because if someone else didn't prompt you to deny this particular thing, then it must have been some internal process of yours, such as guilty conscience.
On the other hand, a lot of old conspiracy theorists have switched their targets to "political correctness", and found backing from bullies terrified of running out of acceptable victims. As such, this Slashdot headline was perfectly predictable, so pre-emptively denying it is not suspicious but simply futile.