In related news, the new GCHQ head also said that he hoped the terrorists don't decide to set up their meetings in police break rooms. That would be worse than using social media, because then they'd also get free coffee and donuts. In the meantime, he has mentioned the possibility of saving you all from the terrorists by expanding surveillance powers to include social media access to private messages without a warrant (or rather doing so legally).
I'm from the US, can someone from the UK verify that the above cynicism is accurate for your country as it would be for ours?
What I'd like to know is why Disney would create a search engine that won't find any of Disney's products, and instead take you to the original stories they stole from to make their animations?
Yeah yeah, what about all the heroes who nobly died in the coal mines so you could have your electricity, and the people who died from the resultant effluent? You see, almost everything comes with a small price in blood to pay. It shouldn't be news to you that the same is true for rocket science. If you don't like it, build an intensive care unit in a bunker and go live there.
What kind of moron doesn't understand that some people have set work hours and it can't just shift their schedule however they want.
If their work hours were set, then daylight savings time would have no effect on the amount of sunshine they get. It's just that some workplaces change the time you go to work or leave work by one hour coincidentally at the same time that clocks are changed for daylight savings time.
Not voting is not the same as a protest vote. Pick a third party candidate, or write in someone you think is worthy of the position. If you don't vote, nobody knows you even care.
This is what I did, a write-in for someone worthy who wasn't even running. Of course, it helps when you already know who your district will vote for regardless of your own vote. Of course, it would be trivial to change to a voting system where you don't get punished for voting for the person you would like to win.
I thought both parties were out to destroy the middle class. The difference, of course, is that Republicans want to screw to poor to help the rich, while pretending they will help the poor due to trickle down economics. Conversely, the Democrats want to appear to help the poor while sabotaging their situation is less obvious ways, such as illegal immigrants and H-1B visas to drop wages, passing large taxes (with equally large loopholes) on the rich, and aid programs that will help you while you are poor but will cease if you start improving your situation.
AARP also encourages people to vote, so any effect of this is probably nullified.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't AARP been encouraging people to vote for ages already? I mean, if Facebook and AARP had simultaneously decided to start encouraging their members to vote, it would be a near-null effect. But since the Facebook GOTV initiative is new, it is a shift away from previous years.
I would bet cash it is about 50/50 just like in the real world.
How much cash and shall we make an arrangement with an online betting site? Also, please clarify what you mean by "about 50/50", in particular the upper bound of the ratio of Democrats to Republicans which will constitute losing your bet.
If I were to go by my 'facebook world' I would say it heavily leans republican.
You are showing a cognitive bias of 'what happens to me must be the way it is everywhere'.
That's so adorable. Your second line is exactly what I would have responded to your first.
Yes, either General Relativity is wrong (and Dark Matter non-existent), or the Standard Model of Particle Physics is wrong (for failing to predict Dark Matter), or the assumptions made by cosmologists are wrong (and Dark Matter is normal matter in an unexpected configuration). Either way, the Dark Matter data is legitimate data that will help us fill in the hole in our understanding.
Facebook isn't abusing their user base in this case -- at least, you'd have a hard time convincing me that encouraging your demographic to vote is some sort of abuse.
The problem is that most voters simply don't know what to care about. Voters worry about irrelevant issues like abortion, gay marriage, inequality, and racism, while not worrying enough about the stuff that matters, like banking regulation, tax policy, nepotism, and crony capitalism.
I suspect that is at least partly because the politicians go to special effort to distract voters from the fact that both parties are screwing them.
Because while they may not know for sure who you voted for, they can guess often enough. Then the party that thinks you'll vote for them, encourages you to vote.
It's so depressing, how nobody has any privacy anymore. Government is spying on us, corporations are spying on us, foreign nations are spying on us. This is no way to live. I mean if one more entity starts spying on me maybe I should just go and kill myself.
Scientists are no more or less idealists than anyone else, no more or less corruptible,
Right, get back to me when you find someone other than a scientist who does double-blind experiments because they don't trust even themselves to be unbiased.
Now the whole world had one language and a common speech.... The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”
Other companies run system diagnostics and verify that things are proper as part of the countdown, and then tell them if they are go for launch or should abort. Other companies would consider it a flawed countdown if the rocket was cleared for launch yet exploded.
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By the same token, you should assume that your operating system (and perhaps hardware as well) already have backdoors for the government.
In related news, the new GCHQ head also said that he hoped the terrorists don't decide to set up their meetings in police break rooms. That would be worse than using social media, because then they'd also get free coffee and donuts. In the meantime, he has mentioned the possibility of saving you all from the terrorists by expanding surveillance powers to include social media access to private messages without a warrant (or rather doing so legally).
I'm from the US, can someone from the UK verify that the above cynicism is accurate for your country as it would be for ours?
Because we are about to regain some freedom by telling the Democrat party to STFU and sit down?!
How adorable. Someone who actually believes the line about Republicans being in favor of freedom. Or were you going to vote independent?
What I'd like to know is why Disney would create a search engine that won't find any of Disney's products, and instead take you to the original stories they stole from to make their animations?
Yeah yeah, what about all the heroes who nobly died in the coal mines so you could have your electricity, and the people who died from the resultant effluent? You see, almost everything comes with a small price in blood to pay. It shouldn't be news to you that the same is true for rocket science. If you don't like it, build an intensive care unit in a bunker and go live there.
What kind of moron doesn't understand that some people have set work hours and it can't just shift their schedule however they want.
If their work hours were set, then daylight savings time would have no effect on the amount of sunshine they get. It's just that some workplaces change the time you go to work or leave work by one hour coincidentally at the same time that clocks are changed for daylight savings time.
Not voting is not the same as a protest vote. Pick a third party candidate, or write in someone you think is worthy of the position. If you don't vote, nobody knows you even care.
This is what I did, a write-in for someone worthy who wasn't even running. Of course, it helps when you already know who your district will vote for regardless of your own vote. Of course, it would be trivial to change to a voting system where you don't get punished for voting for the person you would like to win.
Democratic policy positions are demonstrably different and *better*
Their positions, perhaps. But how about their legislative accomplishments?
I thought both parties were out to destroy the middle class. The difference, of course, is that Republicans want to screw to poor to help the rich, while pretending they will help the poor due to trickle down economics. Conversely, the Democrats want to appear to help the poor while sabotaging their situation is less obvious ways, such as illegal immigrants and H-1B visas to drop wages, passing large taxes (with equally large loopholes) on the rich, and aid programs that will help you while you are poor but will cease if you start improving your situation.
AARP also encourages people to vote, so any effect of this is probably nullified.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't AARP been encouraging people to vote for ages already? I mean, if Facebook and AARP had simultaneously decided to start encouraging their members to vote, it would be a near-null effect. But since the Facebook GOTV initiative is new, it is a shift away from previous years.
Yes, but those politically apathetic facebookers voting screws you, not the facebookers.
I would bet cash it is about 50/50 just like in the real world.
How much cash and shall we make an arrangement with an online betting site? Also, please clarify what you mean by "about 50/50", in particular the upper bound of the ratio of Democrats to Republicans which will constitute losing your bet.
If I were to go by my 'facebook world' I would say it heavily leans republican.
You are showing a cognitive bias of 'what happens to me must be the way it is everywhere'.
That's so adorable. Your second line is exactly what I would have responded to your first.
Yes, either General Relativity is wrong (and Dark Matter non-existent), or the Standard Model of Particle Physics is wrong (for failing to predict Dark Matter), or the assumptions made by cosmologists are wrong (and Dark Matter is normal matter in an unexpected configuration). Either way, the Dark Matter data is legitimate data that will help us fill in the hole in our understanding.
Facebook isn't abusing their user base in this case -- at least, you'd have a hard time convincing me that encouraging your demographic to vote is some sort of abuse.
Since Facebook's users lean Democrat, more of them voting will mean a shift towards Democratic politicians. I bet the Republicans will be pissed.
The problem is that most voters simply don't know what to care about. Voters worry about irrelevant issues like abortion, gay marriage, inequality, and racism, while not worrying enough about the stuff that matters, like banking regulation, tax policy, nepotism, and crony capitalism.
I suspect that is at least partly because the politicians go to special effort to distract voters from the fact that both parties are screwing them.
Why are they so interested in voter turnout?
Because while they may not know for sure who you voted for, they can guess often enough. Then the party that thinks you'll vote for them, encourages you to vote.
In unrelated news, a gun shop that had been selling boots with a target on them, is now selling steel-toed boots with a target on them.
It's so depressing, how nobody has any privacy anymore. Government is spying on us, corporations are spying on us, foreign nations are spying on us. This is no way to live. I mean if one more entity starts spying on me maybe I should just go and kill myself.
Scientists are no more or less idealists than anyone else, no more or less corruptible,
Right, get back to me when you find someone other than a scientist who does double-blind experiments because they don't trust even themselves to be unbiased.
I bet you also think it is racist to say that African Americans tend to have more melanin then Caucasians.
Similarly,
Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. ... The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”
-Genesis 11:1-7
Just say that Orbital offers a lot of "bang" for your buck.
Other companies run system diagnostics and verify that things are proper as part of the countdown, and then tell them if they are go for launch or should abort. Other companies would consider it a flawed countdown if the rocket was cleared for launch yet exploded.
I too wish for his insight into everything. It would be especially appreciated in this story about the Dunning-Kruger effect.