This is a common enough writing technique that I'm surprised that anyone would have a hard time understanding its use...
Yes, yes, but that's pretty much been the viral clickbait trend that won't die.
"You won't believe how THIS asshole got 1 million viewers on his website!"
"Lose 100 pounds by eating THIS! {picture of unidentifiable fruit}"
"Wow, Nintendo fixed their new console with FOAM!"
God forbid you put the word "conductive" in front of foam, lest you make things sound intelligent and scare away readers!
Tomorrow I get to hear dumbass radio jock tell the world about fixing electronics with foam. And then I'll get to hear my coworkers talk about how they wonder why nobody used foam to fix things sooner, because foam has been around forever, right?
Without it a naive searcher would believe racism is a thing of the past.
As opposed to a creation by the liberal leftist machine? Because if my racist news playground was suddenly the top google hit for racism, I would probably plaster articles all over the place about Liberals being the source of the problem etc. It seems like people generally can't be bothered to investigate their sources these days. I don't think hypothetical racism googler is going to fare much better.
If Google actually starts censoring unpleasant realities from results
I think the concern is less about the unpleasant reality of holocaust deniers, and more about the spread of more fake information. We've been living in the peak of the misinformation age, and people are misinforming themselves left and right.
I think we often taken it for granted how much "common knowledge" is actually common. I suppose this is 12 years ago now, but recall Prince Harry wearing a Nazi costume to a party? People really are this stupid.
But then you will have noon at 1pm every day, and midnight at 1 am.
We already have noon at 1pm and midnight at 1 am for 8 months of the year.
But if you want DST all year, then what you really want is a shift in work hours etc. in relation to natural cycles. That is something you can fix without ruining time itself.
That sounds easier said than done. Do we tie schedules to sunrise? "I work for 8 hours, 90 minutes after sunrise." "Do you want to catch a movie at 10 hours after sunrise?"
Variable work schedule? "I work 8 hours a day on the equinox, 6 hours on the winter solstice, and 11 hours on the summer solstice."
You make an interesting argument, but I think back to a study done on the effects of legalizing prostitution on sex trafficking. The study found that legalizing prostitution, while it may have made things better for the women working legally, caused an increase in demand for prostitutes. This caused an increase in sex trafficking.
(https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X12001453)
People have desires they want to act on. Perverts don't have to be created, they already exist (and perhaps we are all perverts on some level or another). When you lower the effort required for them to consume whatever it is they desire, you will truly see how many people also desire that thing. As others become aware of that thing, they may decide they want that thing for themself, having not thought of it themselves previously (You mean I can have THAT? Well, don't mind if I do!). And maybe that last bit is an argument that porn creates perverts, or at the very least, reveals perverts.
When 50 Shades of Grey came out, Pornhub searches for BDSM shot up. You could argue that these were all people already well aware and into BDSM, and the movie just raised a desire in them. I seriously doubt that, however.
(http://www.chron.com/life/health/article/Pornhub-study-shows-search-for-BDSM-porn-on-the-6096907.php)
Humans are curious, and we wonder what various things are like. Some things are naturally, instinctively repulsive to us. Some things neutral. And some things we find appealing, often times not until we are exposed to them. It is true naivete to think that increased availability to such materials won't cause an increase in consumers.
Nothing in our analysis suggests that gender discrimination doesnâ(TM)t exist. In fact, the experts we consulted agreed that no matter how much you adjust the models to equalize for outside factors, a difference in pay between men and women remains, and itâ(TM)s one that canâ(TM)t be explained away.
Here's the slightly deflating caveat: this reverse gender gap, as it's known, applies only to unmarried, childless women under 30 who live in cities. The rest of working women â" even those of the same age, but who are married or don't live in a major metropolitan area â" are still on the less scenic side of the wage divide.
Chung said it "would be totally incorrect to imply that these women outearn men with similar jobs or similar educations."
The Hay Group study, which does conclude that pay disparity is little to none for men and women with the same position, does not cover the United States. They strangely have little to say about the existence (or non-existence) of a pay gap in the US.
To be sure, this data did not cover the United States. But in many countries, men and women doing the same job, in the same function and company, get paid almost exactly the same, the firm finds.
So for whatever reason, this company, headquartered in the US, found it inconvenient to include the US data in their project.
The point is that it is probably easier and more effective to get rid of the antiquated laws that lock us in this cycle where drug makers, smugglers, and DEA all make profits off of addicts.
Decriminalize hard drug use and have the government sell/give away safe, vetted drugs to addicts (or administer doses in government run centers). Making drugs hard to get enslaves addicts to dealers and causes the situation we have now. Legalize marijuana, sell it like alcohol and tobacco, tax it, make money off of it, let a bunch of people out of prison for stupid marijuana offenses.
If the police get to decide the crime being committed, and the police are biased, and the police are the ones who ultimately write the reports that were evaluated for the study, how would the study detect that bias?
It really does not follow to come to a conclusion that police use excessive non-violent force against blacks, but not excessive violent force. Sure, it's possible.
But then, consider: in the past few years we have been presented with videos of officers shooting unarmed blacks, in which the blacks would have been found at fault had it not been for the video evidence. Samuel DuBose and Walter Scott, for instance. How many unarmed suspects have been "upgraded" to armed and dangerous suspects? As long as you're killing (and framing) them in the right ratios, it doesn't matter if they were actually guilty of something?
Are DuBose and Scott rare cases? We hope so, but we do not know without bodycams, and with bodycams cops and suspects alike exhibit better behavior (so we may never know). At present, I don't see how anyone can say "Clearly, blacks are not being wrongly killed."
As for cops vs blacks and blacks vs blacks, I see no reason why we can't strive to improve both situations.
There is a disconnect here: There is evidence of Felix repeatedly making fun of/with Jews/Hitler/the Holocaust, but that's okay because he doesn't come across to you as anti-Semitic? That's a little like saying "My grandpa isn't racist, he's just old fashioned."
I understand your feeling that people seem to be a little over sensitive right now. But personally, I'm starting to see the darkness creeping in where I thought there was light. My friend, with a bachelors in comp sci, who I normally regard as intelligent, is starting to repeat things that sound like alt-right fake news headlines. He tells me that even adjusted for population, fewer blacks are killed by police than whites. That all Indians smell like curry (granted, probably not an alt-right headline).
I wonder, is there really a problem here that up until now has been invisible to me? That xenophobia is more prevalent than it seemed, and it is gaining champions (whether they choose to be or not)?
I thought those numbers sounded like bullshit, but apparently the info is from the NHTSA. (At least the 2500%).
Page 6:
https://www.nhtsa.gov/staticfi...
Still, I think I'll wait a bit after that 6 pack of craft beer.
Believe it or not, farmed salmon has a much higher quantity of mercury than wild-caught salmon (and salmon is really not a fish that has a mercury problem in the wild).
Got a citation for that? The only reputable info I can find says the opposite.
What's inside the plastic wrapping is going to kill you quicker than whatever the wrapping is made of.
The most studied of these substances (PFOSs and PFOAs) has been linked to kidney and testicular cancer, elevated cholesterol, decreased fertility, thyroid problems and changes in hormone functioning, as well as adverse developmental effects and decreased immune response in children.
When there is an obesity epidemic, its worth considering what role the packaging may be playing in messing with hormones and thyroid function, both of which can lead to weight gain.
"Why would you want to do that in the first place?"
I find a number of people can't think "outside of the box". They have their preconceived notions of how things work, and things cannot evolve within their realm of observation. Advancements can only be made by people they don't interact with. Advancements that defy this rule are flukes.
For them, the question is not, "Where can I be?", but "How can I stay where I am?"
For this person, the natural response to the question "How can I do X?" is not one of science, of exploration, of expanding knowledge and understanding.
It's "Why would you want to do X in the first place?"
Nevermind that the tool you create today may have a greater use tomorrow. If this person had their way, we'd still be wiping our asses with our bare hands.
Before our descendants reach the point where they can grow pigs for transplantation, a means of growing organs without bodies will be invented.
Our descendants? I'm not sure how old you are, but it might be in our lifetime. There was just an article about scientists using a rat-mouse chimera to grow a mostly mouse pancreas. This was used to transplant cells into diabetic mice and cure their diabetes.
I mean why grow a whole pig, when all you want is the heart?
1, growing a pig is an easy, well documented process. 2, you might want multiple organs from the pig.
Needless to say, Gale probably won't be leaving his car unlocked again - especially with high-priced items in plain view of thieves.
I can appreciate that in an ideal society, people wouldn't steal, and you should be able to leave your valuables unsecured and in plain sight. However, this man was a victim of a crime that he could have easily prevented.
An acquaintance of mine performed the same mistake as this man. He left his laptop visible in the back seat of his unlocked car, which he knew was unlocked, because he thought it should be safe there. The next morning the laptop was gone, and he accused his friends (who had been to visit him) of stealing the laptop. He lived in the duplexes by the shopping mall. I could never figure out 1) what lead him to believe it was a good idea to leave it out in the open of an unlocked car, and 2) why he didn't suspect that the thief came from the duplex or mall traffic.
Millennials have been SUCKERED into thinking they HAVE to have a college degree.
When I was in high school, college was the only option discussed with students. Vocational training was never talked about. I see no shame in plumbing, welding, construction, wiring houses.
Something about this summary struck me as strange.
It seems Leah created a project, joined with GNU, then decided to separate from the GNU, and Stallman is talking as if Leah can't go back to her original project. Is that normal? It seems borderline abusive to me.
"Oh, you want to leave? Well, I'm going to make sure I tell everyone publicly that you have my permission, because I am the one in power, and you are lucky that I am letting you go."
Leah's reason for the split was because of discrimination that occurred at Free Software Foundation, GNU's main funding source. I'm not very familiar with the situation, but at the very least, here are links for another side of the story: https://libreboot.org/gnu/ https://libreboot.org/gnu-insu...
Lets just scan everything and let people borrow e-readers if they want to take something home. (If they don't already have one of their own.)
Scanned copies of reference materials could be maintained as well.
Why wouldn't we want it all in a digital format?
I do appreciate that with reference materials, it would be more convenient to be able to have 5 things opened at once.
I think a little RTFA goes a long way on this one.
I can see the angle you're coming from, but then there is this:
Finally, if the woman agreed, a videotaped "attitude test" - sex with Hickey - that was said to be necessary to secure jobs and verify their willingness to perform sex acts with a stranger.
So, the asshole presented sex as a requirement - for the position that didn't exist. Given the industry they were being "recruited" for, the women probably thought this was legitimate. Rather than this being a case of sleeping with the boss to influence him into giving you a job/raise.
Say a doctor tells you he has to stick his penis in your mouth to take your temperature, and you, being naive, consent. Later, you find out that this is in fact not the proper way to take your temperature. Would you feel that have been raped? Have you technically been raped, or coerced? Should he be in jail as if for a rape charge?
The Obama administration plans to announce on Thursday a series of retaliatory measures against Russia for hacking into U.S. political institutions and individuals and leaking information in an effort to help President-elect Donald Trump and other Republican candidates, two U.S. officials said on Wednesday.
They could have written that a little differently.
On the first read through, I thought Obama was doing it "...in an effort to help President-elect Donald Trump..."
I find the blase attitude towards Russia's involvement, including the head burying in the sand thing (are Slashdotters so ignorant of history they'd really think the CIA would prop up the left wing traditionally anti-CIA party in the US?), frightening, as is the whole "Trump won so liberal tears hahahah" crap, as if this was an argument about a sports team winning over another with the possible help of a drug. Trump should terrify everyone, left or right. Russian involvement should also terrify everyone, left or right.
I agree with this. Even if Trump doesn't terrify you, it seems naive to deny the possibility of Russian influence in the recent election. I'm entirely baffled by people who can't string together a couple of hypotheticals to come up with a plausible (even likely) situation where the Russians influenced things. Especially after Trump "joked" about it.
Can't we come to some middle ground and say, "Well, maybe it did happen, and maybe it didn't, but either way we need to make sure it can't happen in the future"?
Isn't the general consensus here is that closed source, proprietary electronic voting booths are a faulty idea? Shouldn't we be using this political climate to make pushes for greater voting transparency and computer security?
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This is a common enough writing technique that I'm surprised that anyone would have a hard time understanding its use...
Yes, yes, but that's pretty much been the viral clickbait trend that won't die.
"You won't believe how THIS asshole got 1 million viewers on his website!"
"Lose 100 pounds by eating THIS! {picture of unidentifiable fruit}"
"Wow, Nintendo fixed their new console with FOAM!"
God forbid you put the word "conductive" in front of foam, lest you make things sound intelligent and scare away readers!
Tomorrow I get to hear dumbass radio jock tell the world about fixing electronics with foam. And then I'll get to hear my coworkers talk about how they wonder why nobody used foam to fix things sooner, because foam has been around forever, right?
Without it a naive searcher would believe racism is a thing of the past.
As opposed to a creation by the liberal leftist machine? Because if my racist news playground was suddenly the top google hit for racism, I would probably plaster articles all over the place about Liberals being the source of the problem etc. It seems like people generally can't be bothered to investigate their sources these days. I don't think hypothetical racism googler is going to fare much better.
If Google actually starts censoring unpleasant realities from results
I think the concern is less about the unpleasant reality of holocaust deniers, and more about the spread of more fake information. We've been living in the peak of the misinformation age, and people are misinforming themselves left and right.
I think we often taken it for granted how much "common knowledge" is actually common. I suppose this is 12 years ago now, but recall Prince Harry wearing a Nazi costume to a party? People really are this stupid.
But then you will have noon at 1pm every day, and midnight at 1 am.
We already have noon at 1pm and midnight at 1 am for 8 months of the year.
But if you want DST all year, then what you really want is a shift in work hours etc. in relation to natural cycles. That is something you can fix without ruining time itself.
That sounds easier said than done. Do we tie schedules to sunrise? "I work for 8 hours, 90 minutes after sunrise." "Do you want to catch a movie at 10 hours after sunrise?"
Variable work schedule? "I work 8 hours a day on the equinox, 6 hours on the winter solstice, and 11 hours on the summer solstice."
You make an interesting argument, but I think back to a study done on the effects of legalizing prostitution on sex trafficking. The study found that legalizing prostitution, while it may have made things better for the women working legally, caused an increase in demand for prostitutes. This caused an increase in sex trafficking.
(https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X12001453)
People have desires they want to act on. Perverts don't have to be created, they already exist (and perhaps we are all perverts on some level or another). When you lower the effort required for them to consume whatever it is they desire, you will truly see how many people also desire that thing. As others become aware of that thing, they may decide they want that thing for themself, having not thought of it themselves previously (You mean I can have THAT? Well, don't mind if I do!). And maybe that last bit is an argument that porn creates perverts, or at the very least, reveals perverts.
When 50 Shades of Grey came out, Pornhub searches for BDSM shot up. You could argue that these were all people already well aware and into BDSM, and the movie just raised a desire in them. I seriously doubt that, however.
(http://www.chron.com/life/health/article/Pornhub-study-shows-search-for-BDSM-porn-on-the-6096907.php)
Humans are curious, and we wonder what various things are like. Some things are naturally, instinctively repulsive to us. Some things neutral. And some things we find appealing, often times not until we are exposed to them. It is true naivete to think that increased availability to such materials won't cause an increase in consumers.
Because the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Nowadays you are a racist for having a particular body posture - even when you *don't* think some race is inferior.
Please tell me you aren't talking about the Sieg Heil body posture.
Nothing in our analysis suggests that gender discrimination doesnâ(TM)t exist. In fact, the experts we consulted agreed that no matter how much you adjust the models to equalize for outside factors, a difference in pay between men and women remains, and itâ(TM)s one that canâ(TM)t be explained away.
Here's the slightly deflating caveat: this reverse gender gap, as it's known, applies only to unmarried, childless women under 30 who live in cities. The rest of working women â" even those of the same age, but who are married or don't live in a major metropolitan area â" are still on the less scenic side of the wage divide.
Chung said it "would be totally incorrect to imply that these women outearn men with similar jobs or similar educations."
The Hay Group study, which does conclude that pay disparity is little to none for men and women with the same position, does not cover the United States. They strangely have little to say about the existence (or non-existence) of a pay gap in the US.
To be sure, this data did not cover the United States. But in many countries, men and women doing the same job, in the same function and company, get paid almost exactly the same, the firm finds.
So for whatever reason, this company, headquartered in the US, found it inconvenient to include the US data in their project.
The point is that it is probably easier and more effective to get rid of the antiquated laws that lock us in this cycle where drug makers, smugglers, and DEA all make profits off of addicts.
Decriminalize hard drug use and have the government sell/give away safe, vetted drugs to addicts (or administer doses in government run centers). Making drugs hard to get enslaves addicts to dealers and causes the situation we have now. Legalize marijuana, sell it like alcohol and tobacco, tax it, make money off of it, let a bunch of people out of prison for stupid marijuana offenses.
If the police get to decide the crime being committed, and the police are biased, and the police are the ones who ultimately write the reports that were evaluated for the study, how would the study detect that bias?
It really does not follow to come to a conclusion that police use excessive non-violent force against blacks, but not excessive violent force. Sure, it's possible.
But then, consider: in the past few years we have been presented with videos of officers shooting unarmed blacks, in which the blacks would have been found at fault had it not been for the video evidence. Samuel DuBose and Walter Scott, for instance. How many unarmed suspects have been "upgraded" to armed and dangerous suspects? As long as you're killing (and framing) them in the right ratios, it doesn't matter if they were actually guilty of something?
Are DuBose and Scott rare cases? We hope so, but we do not know without bodycams, and with bodycams cops and suspects alike exhibit better behavior (so we may never know). At present, I don't see how anyone can say "Clearly, blacks are not being wrongly killed."
As for cops vs blacks and blacks vs blacks, I see no reason why we can't strive to improve both situations.
There is a disconnect here: There is evidence of Felix repeatedly making fun of/with Jews/Hitler/the Holocaust, but that's okay because he doesn't come across to you as anti-Semitic? That's a little like saying "My grandpa isn't racist, he's just old fashioned."
I understand your feeling that people seem to be a little over sensitive right now. But personally, I'm starting to see the darkness creeping in where I thought there was light. My friend, with a bachelors in comp sci, who I normally regard as intelligent, is starting to repeat things that sound like alt-right fake news headlines. He tells me that even adjusted for population, fewer blacks are killed by police than whites. That all Indians smell like curry (granted, probably not an alt-right headline).
I wonder, is there really a problem here that up until now has been invisible to me? That xenophobia is more prevalent than it seemed, and it is gaining champions (whether they choose to be or not)?
I thought those numbers sounded like bullshit, but apparently the info is from the NHTSA. (At least the 2500%).
Page 6: https://www.nhtsa.gov/staticfi...
Still, I think I'll wait a bit after that 6 pack of craft beer.
Believe it or not, farmed salmon has a much higher quantity of mercury than wild-caught salmon (and salmon is really not a fish that has a mercury problem in the wild).
Got a citation for that? The only reputable info I can find says the opposite.
http://www.webmd.com/food-reci...
What's inside the plastic wrapping is going to kill you quicker than whatever the wrapping is made of.
The most studied of these substances (PFOSs and PFOAs) has been linked to kidney and testicular cancer, elevated cholesterol, decreased fertility, thyroid problems and changes in hormone functioning, as well as adverse developmental effects and decreased immune response in children.
When there is an obesity epidemic, its worth considering what role the packaging may be playing in messing with hormones and thyroid function, both of which can lead to weight gain.
"Why would you want to do that in the first place?"
I find a number of people can't think "outside of the box". They have their preconceived notions of how things work, and things cannot evolve within their realm of observation. Advancements can only be made by people they don't interact with. Advancements that defy this rule are flukes.
For them, the question is not, "Where can I be?", but "How can I stay where I am?"
For this person, the natural response to the question "How can I do X?" is not one of science, of exploration, of expanding knowledge and understanding.
It's "Why would you want to do X in the first place?"
Nevermind that the tool you create today may have a greater use tomorrow. If this person had their way, we'd still be wiping our asses with our bare hands.
Seems hugely counter-intuitive to normal cars. When I take my foot off the accelerator, I want the car to coast.
Before our descendants reach the point where they can grow pigs for transplantation, a means of growing organs without bodies will be invented.
Our descendants? I'm not sure how old you are, but it might be in our lifetime. There was just an article about scientists using a rat-mouse chimera to grow a mostly mouse pancreas. This was used to transplant cells into diabetic mice and cure their diabetes.
I mean why grow a whole pig, when all you want is the heart?
1, growing a pig is an easy, well documented process. 2, you might want multiple organs from the pig.
Needless to say, Gale probably won't be leaving his car unlocked again - especially with high-priced items in plain view of thieves.
I can appreciate that in an ideal society, people wouldn't steal, and you should be able to leave your valuables unsecured and in plain sight. However, this man was a victim of a crime that he could have easily prevented.
An acquaintance of mine performed the same mistake as this man. He left his laptop visible in the back seat of his unlocked car, which he knew was unlocked, because he thought it should be safe there. The next morning the laptop was gone, and he accused his friends (who had been to visit him) of stealing the laptop. He lived in the duplexes by the shopping mall. I could never figure out 1) what lead him to believe it was a good idea to leave it out in the open of an unlocked car, and 2) why he didn't suspect that the thief came from the duplex or mall traffic.
Millennials have been SUCKERED into thinking they HAVE to have a college degree.
When I was in high school, college was the only option discussed with students. Vocational training was never talked about. I see no shame in plumbing, welding, construction, wiring houses.
Something about this summary struck me as strange.
It seems Leah created a project, joined with GNU, then decided to separate from the GNU, and Stallman is talking as if Leah can't go back to her original project. Is that normal? It seems borderline abusive to me.
"Oh, you want to leave? Well, I'm going to make sure I tell everyone publicly that you have my permission, because I am the one in power, and you are lucky that I am letting you go."
Leah's reason for the split was because of discrimination that occurred at Free Software Foundation, GNU's main funding source. I'm not very familiar with the situation, but at the very least, here are links for another side of the story:
https://libreboot.org/gnu/
https://libreboot.org/gnu-insu...
Nah, it's just amplitude modulation
Why don't we just set up solar industries near coal mining hubs and transplant the workers?
Lets just scan everything and let people borrow e-readers if they want to take something home. (If they don't already have one of their own.)
Scanned copies of reference materials could be maintained as well.
Why wouldn't we want it all in a digital format?
I do appreciate that with reference materials, it would be more convenient to be able to have 5 things opened at once.
I can see the angle you're coming from, but then there is this:
Finally, if the woman agreed, a videotaped "attitude test" - sex with Hickey - that was said to be necessary to secure jobs and verify their willingness to perform sex acts with a stranger.
So, the asshole presented sex as a requirement - for the position that didn't exist. Given the industry they were being "recruited" for, the women probably thought this was legitimate. Rather than this being a case of sleeping with the boss to influence him into giving you a job/raise.
Say a doctor tells you he has to stick his penis in your mouth to take your temperature, and you, being naive, consent. Later, you find out that this is in fact not the proper way to take your temperature. Would you feel that have been raped? Have you technically been raped, or coerced? Should he be in jail as if for a rape charge?
The Obama administration plans to announce on Thursday a series of retaliatory measures against Russia for hacking into U.S. political institutions and individuals and leaking information in an effort to help President-elect Donald Trump and other Republican candidates, two U.S. officials said on Wednesday.
They could have written that a little differently.
On the first read through, I thought Obama was doing it "...in an effort to help President-elect Donald Trump..."
I find the blase attitude towards Russia's involvement, including the head burying in the sand thing (are Slashdotters so ignorant of history they'd really think the CIA would prop up the left wing traditionally anti-CIA party in the US?), frightening, as is the whole "Trump won so liberal tears hahahah" crap, as if this was an argument about a sports team winning over another with the possible help of a drug. Trump should terrify everyone, left or right. Russian involvement should also terrify everyone, left or right.
I agree with this. Even if Trump doesn't terrify you, it seems naive to deny the possibility of Russian influence in the recent election. I'm entirely baffled by people who can't string together a couple of hypotheticals to come up with a plausible (even likely) situation where the Russians influenced things. Especially after Trump "joked" about it.
Can't we come to some middle ground and say, "Well, maybe it did happen, and maybe it didn't, but either way we need to make sure it can't happen in the future"?
Isn't the general consensus here is that closed source, proprietary electronic voting booths are a faulty idea? Shouldn't we be using this political climate to make pushes for greater voting transparency and computer security?