The point is that there are vastly more similarities than differences between breeds of dog, and there aren't even any different breeds of humans with those few differences.
Almost everything people say about race was discredited by the end of the Nineteenth, and certaqinly the Twentieth Century. All it comes down to is that people look different in different parts of the world, and these superficial differences are gradually being eroded due to "inter-breeding" anyway.
But even if a strict apartheid policy was enforced, a "black" person and a "white" person from the same culture and with comparable education, parents and so on are to all intents and purposes indistinguisbable apart from their skin colour.And that's about as relevant as their hair colour in terms of useful information.
1) Leader says, "I need someone for this assignment who won't burn in the sun." Okay, so a Finn is probably out. Someone with darker skin is a better candidate.
People with dark skin tan and burn the same as people with fair skin, as with everything it's just a matter of degree.
A Finn who had lived in Jamaica all his life would be better suited than a black Afro-Carribean who had lived his whole life in Manchester.
The difference between a Great Dane and a Chihuahua is self evident, and presumably of interest to those who care about dogs, that between a white doctor in Cape Town and a black car worker in Germany is not.
Dog breeders may care whether a black labrador is different from a white labrador, to the rest of us they're just labradors. And all human beings are (in that sense) labradors.
What worries us non-economists is how you can have such different theories on things as basic as getting out of a recession. Right of centre economists say you should squeeze government bortrowing, keep inflation low and not worry about unemployment, left of centre economists say the opposite.
I'm not talking about radical economic theories like libertarianism or communism, simply the middle ground of economists. You'd have thought by now that there would be agreement on whether austerity measures work or not.
You realize that if there is a gene that promotes same sex attraction, then there must be a gene that promotes attraction to children?
Why must there? Must there be a gene which makes you prefer programming Linux to watching Glee? Must there be a gene which lets you write poetry or be a good engineer?
Don't forget, there are all manner of sexual practice that you would be repelled by
So what? People can do repellent things with other consenting adults as much as they like, that doesn't mean they can be paedophiles/child rapists.
Some people have a genetic disposition to violence, that doesn't mean we let them off murder.
A $10mil company will be releasing the BitcoinCard this year at the Vienna Bitcoin Conference. The Russian founders say 5 years of research have gone into this technology allowing a super-low-power credit card sized device to send texts, bitcoins, login info, and consumer data through an ad-hoc network instead of cell towers, at a card cost of only $10-$25
You have to pay to get your arse raped by Russian gangsters? I can't imagine the most helpless slashdot virgin falling for that one.
There appear to be a lot of people on/. that are afraid of computers.
There are also quite a lot of people on/. who are highly familiar with computers but aren't 12 years old and don't believe they are the cure for all mankind's woes.
My take on the "hypothetical company" was to take a REAL company and see what they actually need. There's probably a vertical app that you could replicate. You could destroy yet another situation where Windows is used for no other reason than "everyone else uses it".
Clone a legacy app today!
Yeah, just knock out a quick clone of Microsoft Office, you'll be beating them off with a shitty stick.
The thing is, if you want to be swamped with women, you'll need to shave. My unscientific studies have lead me to believe that the only reason men shave is because the women in their lives (particularly girlfriends and wives, may they never meet!) require it of them.
Sure there maybe some unmanly men who shave because they claim to dislike the scratching or itching or whatever, but they are just being silly. Let your facial hair grow for two weeks and it all goes away.
Anyone who uses the word "unmanly" in an unironic way should probably seek counselling before offering advice on the internet.
How is the porn industry struggling? There will never be a possibility that there won't be people willing to make porn... in multitudes. As a consumer, that seems pretty successful to me
The problem the porn industry has is that you don['t need to be in the porn industry to make porn any more. Also, as there is more free porn on the internet than you can ever do more than skim through, the number of people willing to pay for porn must be pretty small nowadays.
I visited the Yamato[0] Museum in Kure near Hiroshima a few years back. The gift shop had model kits on sale, including the Revell "Enola Gay" B-29. Given that the mushroom cloud over Hiroshima had been visible in Kure just down the coast, I thought it was in dubious taste.
I'm not sure I want to know what you consider actual bad taste then.
I think that, though you raise valid points, the outcome would not be nearly as bleak as you expect.
As in any revolutionary/insurgent/freedom fighter type of scenario, it would depend primarily on how many people were on your side against the government. One guy with an assault rifle against the entire US army is only going to end one way. One million guys with petrol bombs, sticks and stones is something else.
Take it from me, it has nothing to do with how big your big manly mussles are.
Yet boxing is divided by weight divisions.
Boxing has pretty strict rules. The sort of street fighting involving a brick to the back of your neck, in GP's charming phrase, does not. He's absolutely right, that whoever strikes first and is most mental will win.
If you're prepared to react to someone spilling your drink in a pub by smashing a glass and stabbing them in the face with it (like Begbie in Trainspotting) you are going to win most fights, simply because there won't be much actual fighting involved from your victim. So size is pretty irrelevant.
It is pretty hard to offend me, but insinuating that I am right wing comes pretty close!
You started off by talking about the freedom to own property and enter into contracts. That is, to anyone but an American, a right wing economic/political position to take.
The reason they are in poverty is simple - they are not free. Meaning that, they do not have security of property ownership (including natural resources), freedom to enter into mutually beneficial contracts, freedom of movement, freedom of speech, etc., etc.
tl;dr version: they're not following the US version of capitalism.
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Almost everything people say about race was discredited by the end of the Nineteenth, and certaqinly the Twentieth Century. All it comes down to is that people look different in different parts of the world, and these superficial differences are gradually being eroded due to "inter-breeding" anyway.
But even if a strict apartheid policy was enforced, a "black" person and a "white" person from the same culture and with comparable education, parents and so on are to all intents and purposes indistinguisbable apart from their skin colour.And that's about as relevant as their hair colour in terms of useful information.
1) Leader says, "I need someone for this assignment who won't burn in the sun." Okay, so a Finn is probably out. Someone with darker skin is a better candidate.
People with dark skin tan and burn the same as people with fair skin, as with everything it's just a matter of degree.
A Finn who had lived in Jamaica all his life would be better suited than a black Afro-Carribean who had lived his whole life in Manchester.
Dog breeders may care whether a black labrador is different from a white labrador, to the rest of us they're just labradors. And all human beings are (in that sense) labradors.
I'm not talking about radical economic theories like libertarianism or communism, simply the middle ground of economists. You'd have thought by now that there would be agreement on whether austerity measures work or not.
All things are inevitable if they happened. You just don't know that before they happen.
Always nice to hear from a Calvinist to lighten the mood a little.
All but the Elect are going to hell, and there's nothing you can do about it.
You realize that if there is a gene that promotes same sex attraction, then there must be a gene that promotes attraction to children?
Why must there? Must there be a gene which makes you prefer programming Linux to watching Glee? Must there be a gene which lets you write poetry or be a good engineer?
Don't forget, there are all manner of sexual practice that you would be repelled by
So what? People can do repellent things with other consenting adults as much as they like, that doesn't mean they can be paedophiles/child rapists.
Some people have a genetic disposition to violence, that doesn't mean we let them off murder.
I can't remember the last time I heard the "volcanoes" canard on slashdot
Is that something to do with ducks floating in volcanoes, so they're witches and therefore liberal pro-AGW fanatics?
I'm sure you can pay that nice Mr Dotcom for an upgrade.
A $10mil company will be releasing the BitcoinCard this year at the Vienna Bitcoin Conference. The Russian founders say 5 years of research have gone into this technology allowing a super-low-power credit card sized device to send texts, bitcoins, login info, and consumer data through an ad-hoc network instead of cell towers, at a card cost of only $10-$25
You have to pay to get your arse raped by Russian gangsters? I can't imagine the most helpless slashdot virgin falling for that one.
There appear to be a lot of people on /. that are afraid of computers.
There are also quite a lot of people on /. who are highly familiar with computers but aren't 12 years old and don't believe they are the cure for all mankind's woes.
Yep, there's no bore like a gun bore.
Who still clicks and drags on scroll bars?
People navigating through popular web forums like, I don't know, the fucking one you're reading now?
My take on the "hypothetical company" was to take a REAL company and see what they actually need. There's probably a vertical app that you could replicate. You could destroy yet another situation where Windows is used for no other reason than "everyone else uses it".
Clone a legacy app today!
Yeah, just knock out a quick clone of Microsoft Office, you'll be beating them off with a shitty stick.
The thing is, if you want to be swamped with women, you'll need to shave. My unscientific studies have lead me to believe that the only reason men shave is because the women in their lives (particularly girlfriends and wives, may they never meet!) require it of them.
Sure there maybe some unmanly men who shave because they claim to dislike the scratching or itching or whatever, but they are just being silly. Let your facial hair grow for two weeks and it all goes away.
Anyone who uses the word "unmanly" in an unironic way should probably seek counselling before offering advice on the internet.
Other than the unkempt state of many nerds (I am one of them), the other big problem is pick up lines
A database of excellent pick up lines, and examples, preferably video demos, would be a plus
I've always found "do I have to buy you a drink, or can we cut straight to the sex?" works a treat as a pick up line. In a brothel.
How is the porn industry struggling? There will never be a possibility that there won't be people willing to make porn... in multitudes. As a consumer, that seems pretty successful to me
The problem the porn industry has is that you don['t need to be in the porn industry to make porn any more. Also, as there is more free porn on the internet than you can ever do more than skim through, the number of people willing to pay for porn must be pretty small nowadays.
I guess you might be stating my opinion; but my thought is why? What is the 3d web going to give me that 2d doesn't?
3D porn, obviously.
Excellent post, most informative.
Check out his book too, it's a really fun and entertaining read.
Criminals can be good company as long as you stay on the right side of them. They generally quite like showing off to mug punters.
I visited the Yamato[0] Museum in Kure near Hiroshima a few years back. The gift shop had model kits on sale, including the Revell "Enola Gay" B-29. Given that the mushroom cloud over Hiroshima had been visible in Kure just down the coast, I thought it was in dubious taste.
I'm not sure I want to know what you consider actual bad taste then.
I think that, though you raise valid points, the outcome would not be nearly as bleak as you expect.
As in any revolutionary/insurgent/freedom fighter type of scenario, it would depend primarily on how many people were on your side against the government. One guy with an assault rifle against the entire US army is only going to end one way. One million guys with petrol bombs, sticks and stones is something else.
When you played soldiers as a kid you probably didn't choose to be a Nazi torturer, unless you were a very, um, special child.
Take it from me, it has nothing to do with how big your big manly mussles are.
Yet boxing is divided by weight divisions.
Boxing has pretty strict rules. The sort of street fighting involving a brick to the back of your neck, in GP's charming phrase, does not. He's absolutely right, that whoever strikes first and is most mental will win.
If you're prepared to react to someone spilling your drink in a pub by smashing a glass and stabbing them in the face with it (like Begbie in Trainspotting) you are going to win most fights, simply because there won't be much actual fighting involved from your victim. So size is pretty irrelevant.
It is pretty hard to offend me, but insinuating that I am right wing comes pretty close!
You started off by talking about the freedom to own property and enter into contracts. That is, to anyone but an American, a right wing economic/political position to take.
The reason they are in poverty is simple - they are not free. Meaning that, they do not have security of property ownership (including natural resources), freedom to enter into mutually beneficial contracts, freedom of movement, freedom of speech, etc., etc.
tl;dr version: they're not following the US version of capitalism.