Part of living in a free god damn society is having the freedom to do questionable, potentially stupid things. The individual learns from their mistakes, and is better for it.
There is a big difference between stupid things that hurt you, and stupid things that hurt other people.
In Season 1, Episode 23 of Star Trek, the Enterprise visits two worlds that are at continuous war. The war is ran via computers, and people that are victims in a "hit" report to a facility to be terminated.
That's not how it would ever work. One side would eventually cheat, commit the people who didn't suicide to war, and win.
I still don't understand how reporting to a facility to be terminated is any better than being blown up directly by a bomb or shot with a rifle or whatever. You're still dead because of war, why would people not see that war had a cost?
Yes, let's disrupt the boring old business model of artists getting paid for stuff they sell because people like it, and replace it with a return to begging.
They're just consistent. The four steps of denial are:
1. There is no global warming, you're faking it.
2. OK, there is some indication that the earth is getting warmer, but it's not man made.
3. Ok, so it is man made, but it's far from serious.
4. Ok, it's serious and we're fucked, but it's too late now.
The great thing about all four of them is that you don't have to do anything.
Especially in places like slashdot you also get
3. (a) OK, so it's man made, it's serious, but an unspecified technological breakthrough will be made to sort it all out, like it always has before, just in the nick of time.
Anybody doing any kind of technical job needs some basic coding skill.
This is only true in the tautological sense that if your job needs programming knowledge, then you need programming knowledge to do that job.
And if (say) AI replaces lawyers, you're still going to have a few high level lawyers with the AI doing the grunt work, but those high level lawyers aren't going to be spending their time coding.
Right, we should pay a professional everytime we need a simple bot for a game or excel macro.
A game bot is a hobby need: if you're interested enough to want to do it, good luck to you. But it's like saying everyone should be able to make fishing flies so they can go fishing.
Excel macros are a work need: either they are a required skill for your job and you learn them, or they're written by someone else at your work who knows what they're doing.
None of this means that most people will ever need a knowledge of actual programming.
The problem is the left and the right which make up 98% of the world are just nuts and demand this sort of bull shit. Advertisers responded. YouTube responded. The 3% who are not nut jobs and want freedom over safety are working on moving to New Hampshire and organizing a free state to be less harmed by the nuts jobs everywhere else.
You are a complete fucking partisan idiot. You wouldn't be able to see reality if it slapped you across the face and kicked you in the nuts. The next time you want to post what someone else thinks, remember: you're a fucking idiot and don't actually know. Why is it you lie so fucking much?
Woo peddlers are going to love this. Now they are going to say this is proof for telepathy, souls, spells, etc.
Wouldn't discovering a physical explanation for something be the very opposite of woo?
If telepathy can be explained as a consequence of this new neural connection, that turns it from a supernatural to a natural (but perhaps not entirely understood) phenomenon.
He did not insult a handicapped reporter. He was mocking someone in his speech and, to convey their level of intelligence, made a face and a spastic hand motion. The target of his insult was not handicapped. He's done the same thing many times, at non-handicapped people. There just happened to be a random handicapped reporter attending, and the misconstrueing bagan...
As for insults, he gets as good as he given (except that he's a bit better at making it funny).
At the risk of stating the obvious, making "a face and a spastic hand motion" that equates physical disability with low intelligence is offensive in itself, regardless of who you're talking to.
In university I found untranslated German wikipedia pages on math the best way to understand the concepts and how to utilize what I am being taught and I can't read German!
Well, I suppose "2+2=4" is the same in any language.
Yes, but think of the howls of outrage on slashdot if you suggested banning under 18s from the internet entirely (which is what you would have to do)..
Slashdot Mirror
Liberal pseudo-science: You rig studies in favor of coming out with your chosen outcome. If it doesn't you simply do not publish that study.
No, sorry, you need to explain again why this isn't a paranoid conspiracy theory.
Part of living in a free god damn society is having the freedom to do questionable, potentially stupid things. The individual learns from their mistakes, and is better for it.
There is a big difference between stupid things that hurt you, and stupid things that hurt other people.
I "spray salt" almost daily and it just leaves me short of breath and one more sock to wash.
Look at the flash git with his fancy sock. Just wipe it on the curtains like everyone else.
back when I was young and foolish (I'm older now) astrologers generally recognized Uranus
Come on people, the joke's practically writing itself.
A way to post comments to slashdot containing unicode characters
That only you and three neo-Nazis will ever read.
If he happens to criticise White Nationalists, it just shows that no one is 100% bad.
Uh... there are exactly ZERO nazis on /.
Countless trolls having fun playing nazi. Absolutely zero real nazis
If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.
Generally speaking the 'troll' excuse is about as convincing as the 'just a bit of harmless banter' excuse.
If you don't like YT, you technically don't have to use it.
Sure I know I don't have to use it, but please show me the alternative that has about just half as many users. Anywhere?
The right to free speech is not the same thing as the right to the biggest available audience.
Are they talking about EATING children?! What's with this fucking "predator" bullshit language?
Astonishingly, some words have more than the one literal meaning.
In Season 1, Episode 23 of Star Trek, the Enterprise visits two worlds that are at continuous war. The war is ran via computers, and people that are victims in a "hit" report to a facility to be terminated.
That's not how it would ever work. One side would eventually cheat, commit the people who didn't suicide to war, and win.
I still don't understand how reporting to a facility to be terminated is any better than being blown up directly by a bomb or shot with a rifle or whatever. You're still dead because of war, why would people not see that war had a cost?
I'm clearly missing something.
There's Kickstarter, Patreon,
Yes, let's disrupt the boring old business model of artists getting paid for stuff they sell because people like it, and replace it with a return to begging.
Sorry, begging on the internet.
They're just consistent. The four steps of denial are:
1. There is no global warming, you're faking it. 2. OK, there is some indication that the earth is getting warmer, but it's not man made. 3. Ok, so it is man made, but it's far from serious. 4. Ok, it's serious and we're fucked, but it's too late now.
The great thing about all four of them is that you don't have to do anything.
Especially in places like slashdot you also get
3. (a) OK, so it's man made, it's serious, but an unspecified technological breakthrough will be made to sort it all out, like it always has before, just in the nick of time.
Anybody doing any kind of technical job needs some basic coding skill.
This is only true in the tautological sense that if your job needs programming knowledge, then you need programming knowledge to do that job.
And if (say) AI replaces lawyers, you're still going to have a few high level lawyers with the AI doing the grunt work, but those high level lawyers aren't going to be spending their time coding.
Right, we should pay a professional everytime we need a simple bot for a game or excel macro.
A game bot is a hobby need: if you're interested enough to want to do it, good luck to you. But it's like saying everyone should be able to make fishing flies so they can go fishing.
Excel macros are a work need: either they are a required skill for your job and you learn them, or they're written by someone else at your work who knows what they're doing.
None of this means that most people will ever need a knowledge of actual programming.
The big companies are looking to commoditize programming because there is a lot of grunt work to be done that doesn't require a great deal of skill.
There's no such thing as grunt work in software. If there is, somebody would've already written a script or library to handle it.
There are many levels of skill between 'can be automated by a simple script' and 'genius-level once in a generation programmer'.
The problem is the left and the right which make up 98% of the world are just nuts and demand this sort of bull shit. Advertisers responded. YouTube responded. The 3% who are not nut jobs and want freedom over safety are working on moving to New Hampshire and organizing a free state to be less harmed by the nuts jobs everywhere else.
Yes, you're 101% correct.
You are a complete fucking partisan idiot. You wouldn't be able to see reality if it slapped you across the face and kicked you in the nuts. The next time you want to post what someone else thinks, remember: you're a fucking idiot and don't actually know. Why is it you lie so fucking much?
Jesus, just get off the fence please.
yeah, because that's secure
You're watching the fucking news, not trading nuclear weapons.
Woo peddlers are going to love this. Now they are going to say this is proof for telepathy, souls, spells, etc.
Wouldn't discovering a physical explanation for something be the very opposite of woo?
If telepathy can be explained as a consequence of this new neural connection, that turns it from a supernatural to a natural (but perhaps not entirely understood) phenomenon.
too many anecdotes of kids getting sick and then developing symptoms of autism shortly after for it to be nothing
You can't argue with scientific facts like that.
He did not insult a handicapped reporter. He was mocking someone in his speech and, to convey their level of intelligence, made a face and a spastic hand motion. The target of his insult was not handicapped. He's done the same thing many times, at non-handicapped people. There just happened to be a random handicapped reporter attending, and the misconstrueing bagan...
As for insults, he gets as good as he given (except that he's a bit better at making it funny).
At the risk of stating the obvious, making "a face and a spastic hand motion" that equates physical disability with low intelligence is offensive in itself, regardless of who you're talking to.
In university I found untranslated German wikipedia pages on math the best way to understand the concepts and how to utilize what I am being taught and I can't read German!
Well, I suppose "2+2=4" is the same in any language.
...keep them off social media.
Yes, but think of the howls of outrage on slashdot if you suggested banning under 18s from the internet entirely (which is what you would have to do)..
Dammit, now he's going to have to come up with a different reason that he hates LO.
It doesn't have The Ribbon.
Oh, bugger...
For those who aren't already aware of it, Filk Music is science-fiction/fantasy inspired folk music
Thanks for the warning!