Just toss these fuckers into the sea and the Great Whites will make them disappear.
But that would play straight to their hand. "Islamic State" is doing things like this because they're trying to tell a story: that they're a Caliphate straight from the dark ages. Treat their agents any differently than a common crazy murderer, and you're saying that you agree they are different, thus putting them a little bit closer towards having their story commonly accepted.
So, what we must do is counter their story with our own: that they're nothing more than a bunch of brutal criminals. And we do that by treating them exactly like any other criminal. Counter the fantasy with banality, don't let them draw us into it. That's the mistake we did with Al-Qaeda: we allowed them to define themselves as "terrorists" rather than "murderers".
No, maximizing profit is the goal of a capitalist. An immoral capitalist has no problem with it if it maximizes profit. Now before you get your panties in a bunch, remember that any other immoral idealogue will also tend to have no problem with it if it maximizes their objectives.
The problem is, if you don't institutionalize morality, you get a situation which rewards the immoral psychopathic capitalist and punishes a moral and sane one, and if you do institutionalize it - for example in the form of welfare state - you get hordes of people howling that the state is interfering in the marketplace and creating inefficiencies, which of course is true but misses the point. Capitalism, like any social system, fails when it stops serving human needs and becomes an end to itself, since at that point is has betrayed its very purpose. And it's on the verge of just that.
The fact is slaves are shitty workers. They only work hard enough not to get whipped, and to get that you have to pay someone to hold the whip. Might as well pay them directly.
And yet this lesson still remains unlearnt. Just look at how most companies treat their employees, who respond by putting in the absolute minimum effort they can get away with, and sometimes with outright sabotage.
I think it's because we're still socialized to value domination over cooperation. "Putting someone in their place" feeds the ego of a manager, thus there's some amount of economic reward they're willing to give up to do so. And when every single one of them does the same thing, at every ladder of the hierarchy, you get a horribly ineffective organization.
All in all, a modern corporation is a pretty good approximation of a totalitarian dictatorship: peons are merely squeezed dry as long as they keep their heads down, leaders declare grandious and frankly delusional "visions" that nobody takes seriously but can't call out as completely unrealistic either, everyone inbetween concentrates either on covering their back or stabbing daggers in those of others, and random purges threaten all. Stalin would be right at home in the modern boardroom, and probably a darling and role model of the business world.
As for FDD... standard on the east coast USA and many other parts of the world. It works for unthinking peons but utterly fails for jobs that require imagination.
If you treat your employees like unthinking peons, they will respond by behaving like that - and that means turning a blind eye towards the innumerable small irregularities and problems a workforce that doesn't actively hate you could easily correct before they have a noticeable effect on production. That is the difference between workplaces where everything seems to work as if by magic and one that does a passable impression of being haunted by an evil spirit because it is, specifically yours.
There are no jobs that don't benefit from thinking about how it fits to the bigger picture.
But if you're afraid to do your job, it's because you have a problem with confidence in your own skills. Blaming management for such fears just takes the incompetence you exhibit to a whole new level of blame-gaming.
Unless it's not just you, but every one of your fellow employees. Then the problem is systematic in that workplace, and thus must be in the system itself.
The thing is, managers are humans and sometimes have serious issues or even outright mental problems, such as ego too powerful for them to handle. And sometimes they're simply afraid of their superiors. Competence only matters in a healthy organization where everyone is trying to meet its goals; in an ill one they concentrate on covering their ass, not just against mistakes but also against backstabbing.
It seems like you're extrapolating from that experience, to thinking "FDD" is a current trend. AFAIK it's not.
Sure it is. What's happening to programming is what happens to anything when there's more supply than demand: a race to the bottom. Personal computers used to be rare, so programmers could rely on their skills being so as well; now they're ubiquitous, and the industry is entering the same phase others did during the Industrial Revolution. The only known solution is to unionize and bargain collectively, but of course that requires giving up the cherished illusions of being able to make it on your own.
telling us the name, address and phone number of the human responding to the mail
I'm pretty sure Google is not allowed to give anyone's private information without proper court warrant, and I'm very sure that an email saying "I'm a Judge, honest!" is not a proper warrant.
Not replying to this email will result in a doubling of your fine.
Courts of law don't have the power to arbitrarily double the punishment because they happen to be feeling ornery. They can add contempt of court charges to the case, but it's highly questionable whether ignoring an e-mail - which can be from anyone - counts as contempt, especially when said e-mail seems to involve illegal action and blackmail.
Those are all wonderful reasons for voluntary government certification: anybody who wants to can go to the government and get some government seal of approval; I as a rider can then make a voluntary choice whether that certification is useful information or whether I want to throw caution to the wind and ride with uncertified drivers.
But I, as Joe Driver, can't choose whether I want to share the road with a taxi driver who pulls 16-hour workdays out of greed or desperation. Unless, of course, some entity with sufficient power forces the taxi to take breaks.
And of course you're also ignoring the well-known fact that human beings are extremely bad at estimating risks. So no, you as a rider can't make an informed choice about whether getting a certified taxi is worth the hassle, especially since unlicensed taxi companies have every incentive to bombard you with misinformation, while bean-counters utilizing cold math can. So it's a choice between letting a preventable tragedy play out forever, or stopping it but possibly hurting someone's cherished delusions of grandieur.
The treaty was stupid and anyone who signed it should be shot for gross incompetence. Simple fact is their are resources and unless we are one world communist country every damn thing in space will have a price tag attached.
No, every damn thing in space doesn't have a price tag attached, because they aren't actually owned by anyone. Or should I be able to simply declare the Moon my property and seek to extract rent from anyone who builds a base on it, possibly decades in the future?
The treaty exists to keep people and nations from getting into fights over claims on places they can't even reach.
Why aren't the developers risking anything by putting their time in and at least demonstrating some ability to deliver?
Developers need to eat, that means they need day jobs to work on an unfunded game. That in turn means time spent developing it comes from their free time, which is already a precious commodity required for personal maintenance. So make that an hour a day at most for a sustainable rate.
Now, how many hours of development do you think even a simple game requires, even if we assume you're a renaissance man who can program, draw, compose, write, design levels, design characters, etc?
Conservationists tend to be rational, environmentalists are for the most part off their rocker.
People, for the most part, are perfectly rational but have been socialized to value power over any other goal. And prestige is a form of power. So any issue tends to turn into a power struggle where facts are cast aside in favour of "winning".
It doesn't help that "enviromentalism" - or any other group - has a subculture with its own value systems, which don't necessarily have anything to do with the nominal goal. Thus someone who identifies themselves as an enviromentalist inherits a set of default positions, such as antipathy towards nuclear power, and can't change them without expenditure of willpower, since that risks expulsion from the group.
So it's not that people are off their rocker, it's that human mind is bad at properly prioritizing things in its current environment. We've simply grown too powerful too fast for evolution to keep up.
Yes, the thread was about Tesla using renewables for it's new factory.
But Tesla is not going to be using renewables for its new factory. It's going to be using a grid connection, because renewables aren't reliable enough to run a factory with. What it's going to do with renewables is vary its load wildly as wind comes and goes to lower and possibly completely cancel its electric bill. Good for Tesla, bad for the power company and other customers, and utterly useless for the environment, since almost all power plants can't ramp up and down in minutes or even hours, so they have to keep burning coal in order to keep those plants ready.
So the actual effect of all this is that people will end up paying more for their electricity, and the risk of a catastrophic grid failure increases, since there's now a huge and randomly varying load on it.
I came to my understanding faced with an incurable terminal illness. We were planning for the funeral until I decided to try to do my own research and try nutritional treatments. It was a truly stunning and miraculous transformation. The disease is still there, and death will come, but it's many years off now, not just a few months, the oxygen tanks are gone because they aren't needed any more, and life has real QUALITY now, even though there are a few things I still can't do.
Good for you. So... care to give us your disease and specifics of treatment for any fellow sufferers who might benefit from them?
Gluten isnt bad for you, unless you have a specific allergy or condition.
Possibly. However, "vague bad feeling" is a classic sign of constant low-level infection response. So it's entirely possible that gluten isn't really good for anyone despite only a few people being so sensitive to it that they get clearly visible symptoms.
And you've never done anything that endangered others? (If you say "never" I'm going to call you a liar)
Plenty, including drunk driving. So if I hit your kids tomorrow, is that just too bad for them and you, because obviously your employee deserves a second chance, and me failing mine is just accaptable price for that?
Because, I assure you, I'm drunk this very second, will probably never stop, and can only hope I judged my (abused) liver's abilites right, when it comes to making sure I'll be sober for when I have to drive. But of course even then I'll be sleep-deprived and in withdrawal. So go ahead and defend your employee; just remember you'll also be defending me.
And he has served time in prison for that.
And that won't make any future victims any less dead.
Don't be so eager to dole out "justice" for people you've never met.
I'm not. In fact, I don't give a tiniest bit of a shit for "justice" when that's just a nicer word for "revenge", which in turn is a nicer word for "sadism". I do, however, care about stopping people from getting killed. And that means keeping drunk drivers away from cars.
He had to have an interlock on his car even when granted a provisional license for 2 years.
Of all the things you've listed, this is the only one that actually matters, since it's the only one that stops him from driving drunk again. And frankly, at this point, it would probably be best if we simply admitted the facts and demanded that an "interlock" be installed on all cars.
They'll play the normality privilege card on you, and anything you say will just be taken as proof they're right, and you're wrong since they're right for merely existing according to their dogma. Works like your average proudly chauvinistically myopic females using the creep card on males that don't play their games by their rules literally all the fucking time. You learn to avoid them, which will just get you generally blacklisted as that creep always alone over there, anyway.
How strange. I only seem to run into average dudes who sometimes say stupid things, sometimes insightful things, and normal girls who interact with me like they and me were both real people with real feelings. It's almost like there was something wrong with you to make everyone treat you like you were a complete shithead.
Just like some groups have predisposition to certain diseases, maybe some groups have a genetic limitation to the likelyhood of above average intelligence.
Fixed that for you. Don't feel bad, you're not responsible for your genotype:).
Please note: I am saying some groups. I am not saying my group would be smarter. People tend to project that idea.
That said, I hope not. But not looking into it is a massive disservice to humanity.
People project the idea because every single time this has come up that's exactly what it has eventually reduced to. It's what it'll always reduce to, because what other purpose could bringing up this idea possibly serve? What are you going to do with it, besides feeding racists demagogues?
As for "disservice to humanity", the problem nowadays isn't that people aren't smart, it's that they use their intelligence in service of baser instincts. Thus, for example, we have climate "sceptics" who are smart people using their intelligence to make up excuses to disregard evidence of something they don't want to believe. Then we have the "war hawks" coming up with compelling reasons to invade one country after another. Finally, there's a horde of economists pushing for various contradictory ideological goals, all dressed up in very believable theories purpose-built to get the desired conclusions.
The problem isn't that Joe Average is not smart, the problem is Joe is using his smarts to come up with excuses rather than solutions.
Generally, racists promote their own race as best.
Do they? Because the truly destructive racist regimes - Nazis or the Confederacy, for example - are about the threat other races pose, which they couldn't do if they were inherently inferior. Someone who genuinely believes they're superior is an arrogant and annoying but ultimately harmless fool; it takes someone who has a severe inferiority complex to do things like the Holocaust or Jim Crow laws.
Which brings up another point - those not used to dealing with enterprise storage may not realize that you can/should/maybe want an array with more than one RAID group in it. They end up putting all their disks in one big VDEV which sucks for performance and flexibility, then blame ZFS for not being flexible.
Read how it works, don't make retarded choices based on ignorance, and you'll be fine.
Right. So let's take a practical example: I have 4 2TB drives, and one 120GB SSD. What are the "non-retarded" ways to configure that under ZFS, and why?
These days your online reputation can be your most important asset. Can you imagine if one of the people he did this to got turned down for a job because their name showed up on a child porn site or pro-Nazi group in a standard background check?
Names aren't globally unique identifiers. So if having one like yours associated with questionable activity is enough to screw you, you're screwed.
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But that would play straight to their hand. "Islamic State" is doing things like this because they're trying to tell a story: that they're a Caliphate straight from the dark ages. Treat their agents any differently than a common crazy murderer, and you're saying that you agree they are different, thus putting them a little bit closer towards having their story commonly accepted.
Here, let Littlefinger explain it.
So, what we must do is counter their story with our own: that they're nothing more than a bunch of brutal criminals. And we do that by treating them exactly like any other criminal. Counter the fantasy with banality, don't let them draw us into it. That's the mistake we did with Al-Qaeda: we allowed them to define themselves as "terrorists" rather than "murderers".
The problem is, if you don't institutionalize morality, you get a situation which rewards the immoral psychopathic capitalist and punishes a moral and sane one, and if you do institutionalize it - for example in the form of welfare state - you get hordes of people howling that the state is interfering in the marketplace and creating inefficiencies, which of course is true but misses the point. Capitalism, like any social system, fails when it stops serving human needs and becomes an end to itself, since at that point is has betrayed its very purpose. And it's on the verge of just that.
And yet this lesson still remains unlearnt. Just look at how most companies treat their employees, who respond by putting in the absolute minimum effort they can get away with, and sometimes with outright sabotage.
I think it's because we're still socialized to value domination over cooperation. "Putting someone in their place" feeds the ego of a manager, thus there's some amount of economic reward they're willing to give up to do so. And when every single one of them does the same thing, at every ladder of the hierarchy, you get a horribly ineffective organization.
All in all, a modern corporation is a pretty good approximation of a totalitarian dictatorship: peons are merely squeezed dry as long as they keep their heads down, leaders declare grandious and frankly delusional "visions" that nobody takes seriously but can't call out as completely unrealistic either, everyone inbetween concentrates either on covering their back or stabbing daggers in those of others, and random purges threaten all. Stalin would be right at home in the modern boardroom, and probably a darling and role model of the business world.
If you treat your employees like unthinking peons, they will respond by behaving like that - and that means turning a blind eye towards the innumerable small irregularities and problems a workforce that doesn't actively hate you could easily correct before they have a noticeable effect on production. That is the difference between workplaces where everything seems to work as if by magic and one that does a passable impression of being haunted by an evil spirit because it is, specifically yours.
There are no jobs that don't benefit from thinking about how it fits to the bigger picture.
Unless it's not just you, but every one of your fellow employees. Then the problem is systematic in that workplace, and thus must be in the system itself.
The thing is, managers are humans and sometimes have serious issues or even outright mental problems, such as ego too powerful for them to handle. And sometimes they're simply afraid of their superiors. Competence only matters in a healthy organization where everyone is trying to meet its goals; in an ill one they concentrate on covering their ass, not just against mistakes but also against backstabbing.
Sure it is. What's happening to programming is what happens to anything when there's more supply than demand: a race to the bottom. Personal computers used to be rare, so programmers could rely on their skills being so as well; now they're ubiquitous, and the industry is entering the same phase others did during the Industrial Revolution. The only known solution is to unionize and bargain collectively, but of course that requires giving up the cherished illusions of being able to make it on your own.
I'm pretty sure Google is not allowed to give anyone's private information without proper court warrant, and I'm very sure that an email saying "I'm a Judge, honest!" is not a proper warrant.
Courts of law don't have the power to arbitrarily double the punishment because they happen to be feeling ornery. They can add contempt of court charges to the case, but it's highly questionable whether ignoring an e-mail - which can be from anyone - counts as contempt, especially when said e-mail seems to involve illegal action and blackmail.
Nice satellite you have there. Would be a shame if a laser beam hit it. Good thing I'm selling "insurance".
But I, as Joe Driver, can't choose whether I want to share the road with a taxi driver who pulls 16-hour workdays out of greed or desperation. Unless, of course, some entity with sufficient power forces the taxi to take breaks.
And of course you're also ignoring the well-known fact that human beings are extremely bad at estimating risks. So no, you as a rider can't make an informed choice about whether getting a certified taxi is worth the hassle, especially since unlicensed taxi companies have every incentive to bombard you with misinformation, while bean-counters utilizing cold math can. So it's a choice between letting a preventable tragedy play out forever, or stopping it but possibly hurting someone's cherished delusions of grandieur.
Well, for starters, it's expected to enforce these contracts. Every legally binding contract has the state as a third party.
No, every damn thing in space doesn't have a price tag attached, because they aren't actually owned by anyone. Or should I be able to simply declare the Moon my property and seek to extract rent from anyone who builds a base on it, possibly decades in the future?
The treaty exists to keep people and nations from getting into fights over claims on places they can't even reach.
I guess that's one way to make pirates leave cargo ships alone...
Developers need to eat, that means they need day jobs to work on an unfunded game. That in turn means time spent developing it comes from their free time, which is already a precious commodity required for personal maintenance. So make that an hour a day at most for a sustainable rate.
Now, how many hours of development do you think even a simple game requires, even if we assume you're a renaissance man who can program, draw, compose, write, design levels, design characters, etc?
People, for the most part, are perfectly rational but have been socialized to value power over any other goal. And prestige is a form of power. So any issue tends to turn into a power struggle where facts are cast aside in favour of "winning".
It doesn't help that "enviromentalism" - or any other group - has a subculture with its own value systems, which don't necessarily have anything to do with the nominal goal. Thus someone who identifies themselves as an enviromentalist inherits a set of default positions, such as antipathy towards nuclear power, and can't change them without expenditure of willpower, since that risks expulsion from the group.
So it's not that people are off their rocker, it's that human mind is bad at properly prioritizing things in its current environment. We've simply grown too powerful too fast for evolution to keep up.
Everyone has their favorite fantasies. The problem is, some people become addicted to theirs and start to actually believe them.
But Tesla is not going to be using renewables for its new factory. It's going to be using a grid connection, because renewables aren't reliable enough to run a factory with. What it's going to do with renewables is vary its load wildly as wind comes and goes to lower and possibly completely cancel its electric bill. Good for Tesla, bad for the power company and other customers, and utterly useless for the environment, since almost all power plants can't ramp up and down in minutes or even hours, so they have to keep burning coal in order to keep those plants ready.
So the actual effect of all this is that people will end up paying more for their electricity, and the risk of a catastrophic grid failure increases, since there's now a huge and randomly varying load on it.
Good for you. So... care to give us your disease and specifics of treatment for any fellow sufferers who might benefit from them?
Possibly. However, "vague bad feeling" is a classic sign of constant low-level infection response. So it's entirely possible that gluten isn't really good for anyone despite only a few people being so sensitive to it that they get clearly visible symptoms.
Plenty, including drunk driving. So if I hit your kids tomorrow, is that just too bad for them and you, because obviously your employee deserves a second chance, and me failing mine is just accaptable price for that?
Because, I assure you, I'm drunk this very second, will probably never stop, and can only hope I judged my (abused) liver's abilites right, when it comes to making sure I'll be sober for when I have to drive. But of course even then I'll be sleep-deprived and in withdrawal. So go ahead and defend your employee; just remember you'll also be defending me.
And that won't make any future victims any less dead.
I'm not. In fact, I don't give a tiniest bit of a shit for "justice" when that's just a nicer word for "revenge", which in turn is a nicer word for "sadism". I do, however, care about stopping people from getting killed. And that means keeping drunk drivers away from cars.
Of all the things you've listed, this is the only one that actually matters, since it's the only one that stops him from driving drunk again. And frankly, at this point, it would probably be best if we simply admitted the facts and demanded that an "interlock" be installed on all cars.
How strange. I only seem to run into average dudes who sometimes say stupid things, sometimes insightful things, and normal girls who interact with me like they and me were both real people with real feelings. It's almost like there was something wrong with you to make everyone treat you like you were a complete shithead.
Fixed that for you. Don't feel bad, you're not responsible for your genotype :).
People project the idea because every single time this has come up that's exactly what it has eventually reduced to. It's what it'll always reduce to, because what other purpose could bringing up this idea possibly serve? What are you going to do with it, besides feeding racists demagogues?
As for "disservice to humanity", the problem nowadays isn't that people aren't smart, it's that they use their intelligence in service of baser instincts. Thus, for example, we have climate "sceptics" who are smart people using their intelligence to make up excuses to disregard evidence of something they don't want to believe. Then we have the "war hawks" coming up with compelling reasons to invade one country after another. Finally, there's a horde of economists pushing for various contradictory ideological goals, all dressed up in very believable theories purpose-built to get the desired conclusions.
The problem isn't that Joe Average is not smart, the problem is Joe is using his smarts to come up with excuses rather than solutions.
Do they? Because the truly destructive racist regimes - Nazis or the Confederacy, for example - are about the threat other races pose, which they couldn't do if they were inherently inferior. Someone who genuinely believes they're superior is an arrogant and annoying but ultimately harmless fool; it takes someone who has a severe inferiority complex to do things like the Holocaust or Jim Crow laws.
Right. So let's take a practical example: I have 4 2TB drives, and one 120GB SSD. What are the "non-retarded" ways to configure that under ZFS, and why?
Yet the kernel does scheduling, memory management, user access control, filesystems, device management, TCP/IP, power management, etc.
Names aren't globally unique identifiers. So if having one like yours associated with questionable activity is enough to screw you, you're screwed.