if all popular music from the 00s and 10s disappeared, it'd be no loss at all, whereas the music of the 60s through mid-90s was filled with cultural treasures.
Past a certain age, which is generally around 35, most people lose interest in new music. I'd take a bet that you were born around 1960 and so interest in anything after 1995 faded rapidly.
>... the Breakthrough Prize Awards honor the world's greatest scientists and their discoveries.... the Breakthrough Prize Awards honor the world's greatest profit-making scientists and their discoveries.
They couldn't care less about the little people, if anything the mega-rich want to be even richer and in a world with a total 0.5 billion or less population, so their ranches, stretch limos and mega yachts can grow more elbow space.
In their world-view only 3 kinds of people can fit: programmers coding 7/24 on drugs, the executive class and those who provide the execs with a gilded life (private security, servants, cooks, harlots a.k.a. personal fitness trainers and designer drug chemists). Andbody else, like peasants or elderly are either unneeded or can be replaced by robots at less cost/more profit.
So you're saying the future's looking good for slashdotters?
My favorite wine is $3.98 a bottle, and I'm not even sure grapes are involved.
Well 10/10 for honesty at least. Personally I go for paint stripper flavoured with Ribena. It has a robust, and yet almost insouciant cheekiness that lingers on the palate with hints of wild blackberry and exploding gas barbecue.
As of this writing, only 6 of 210 postings were at level 5 which just goes to show how pointlessly contentious this topic is. Maybe the Slashdot editors should think about a moratorium on climate topics for a while.
It's only really a contentious topic amongst extreme right wingers in the US, who are of course well represented on slashdot. In most of the rest of the civilised world, even conservatives generally accept that climate change is a reality.
So publish a book explaining in detail, with evidence, how this conspiracy is being organised. You'd become rich and famous overnight if it was even half right.
Otherwise, you're just another nut on the internet claiming they've proved that Einstein was wrong about everything, but that no major publication will accept their work because they're all in on the conspiracy too.
Agreed. On BBC TV recently they featured a Syrian doctor who wanted to settle in the UK so that he could continue his medical practice. We were supposed to sympathise with him as a quiet middle-class man who just wanted to continue his quite middle-class life.
My thought instead was that with his country at war, his country needed doctors.
No, I think the point was simply that many asylum seekers aren't rapists and unemployable cut-throats as portrayed in the Daily Mail et al.
Anyway, if you're a Syrian and your choices are between supporting Assad and supporting ISIL, I think you have every right to say "the only way to win is not to play" and get on the first boat out of there.
Not a right, an entitlement. A right is something the government can not stop you from doing. An entitlement is something the government must provide you. The distinction is important. Governments do not provide anyone with rights. Governments can only take rights away.
"The government" can stop you from doing anything they like. Also, there are no pre-existing rights, only systems created by human beings.
Wild animals don't have governments, and they don't have rights.
A law professor probably would, but that doesn't make him right... it means he sees the world through man-made laws.
There are only man-made laws, unless you can somehow prove that God exists.
Slavery was once legal, it still exists in the world. Is that ok?
Or is it wrong and a violation of human rights, regardless of the law?
The point is that until enough people decided slavery was wrong and made it illegal, the imaginary "rights" of the slaves (to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, or whatever) were completely meaningless.
The homicide rate in Canada or in France is nowhere near the homicide rate in the US, yet, we are allow to own guns.
Canada and France don't allow you to carry a concealed revolver around with you, and there is no right to shoot muggers or burglars in "self defence". Also, there are serious restrictions on rifles, it's only really hunters who have guns.
"It's a 'right' that nobody in the UK wants."... except those who do. If the "we" you're talking about were unanimous, it would not have needed a petition, never mind a law.
It's a case of the majority ruling.
For instance, while there are undoubtedly some paedophiles who would want the age of consent abolished entirely, most of us think a law preventing you from fucking babies is a good idea.
And, yes, this does infringe on the paedophiles' "rights".
Saudi Arabia is also violating those women's rights, what is your point?
Do you honestly think that people don't have a right to free speech, anywhere in the world, regardless of what governments do?
Do you think China's censorship is right or wrong?
At some point, basic human rights exist regardless of what laws are passed. Any law that attempts to limit such rights, is a violation of human rights.
But there are always some limits on these rights. If you had a right to absolutely free speech, there would be no defamation laws. If you had a right to absolute liberty, there would be no prisons. And so on.
Society agrees on what is or is not acceptable, there's not some series of Platonic Rights that they're reflecting.
The way to respond to a provocative question like that is to ask another question that bounces it back. That makes the question go away. I heard a similar piece of advice years ago about responding to the question "How are you with handling difficult co-workers?" The suggested answer was "Are you thinking of someone in particular?"
But a half-decent interviewer will be aware that you have dodged the question.
Unlike law, medicine and traditional engineering fields, software development is completely unregulated with no real standard certifications (even a degree is optional).
Medicine is regulated?!?
Then why do I have to search among so many bad doctors to find a good one (obviously: regulations are not weeding out the bad ones)?
And why, when I take my body to the doctor, most of the time it feels like I'm taking my card to the automotive department at Sears?
I can't speak for where you live, but here in the UK you certainly have to be suitably qualified to practise as a doctor, same as a solicitor/barrister (lawyer).
You can't ensure a nice personality, but you can be sure they are technically competent.
Said professional engineers were also not explicitly qualified or certified, beyond having a degree in engineering.
In the UK you're either a Chartered Engineer, or you're not. It affects what you can call yourself and do legally.
It's like being a Chartered Accountant: does it mean that because you recently qualified you know more about accounting than someone unqualified who has been doing it for forty years? No, but you can sign as an auditor and they can't, simple as that.
It's a mote point. No matter what the opinion, the word Engineer is commonly included in computer related position titles (programming, networking, etc.) by companies, hiring agents, in normal conversation, etc. Once a new meaning for a word has entered the common vernacular it's near impossible to pull it back...
Yes, but it's like the difference between a quack calling himself "Doctor Happy" selling herbal diet pills and an actual MD with a recognised qualification.
You're not allowed to pass yourself off as the latter.
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if all popular music from the 00s and 10s disappeared, it'd be no loss at all, whereas the music of the 60s through mid-90s was filled with cultural treasures.
Past a certain age, which is generally around 35, most people lose interest in new music. I'd take a bet that you were born around 1960 and so interest in anything after 1995 faded rapidly.
> ... the Breakthrough Prize Awards honor the world's greatest scientists and their discoveries. ... the Breakthrough Prize Awards honor the world's greatest profit-making scientists and their discoveries.
They couldn't care less about the little people, if anything the mega-rich want to be even richer and in a world with a total 0.5 billion or less population, so their ranches, stretch limos and mega yachts can grow more elbow space. In their world-view only 3 kinds of people can fit: programmers coding 7/24 on drugs, the executive class and those who provide the execs with a gilded life (private security, servants, cooks, harlots a.k.a. personal fitness trainers and designer drug chemists). Andbody else, like peasants or elderly are either unneeded or can be replaced by robots at less cost/more profit.
So you're saying the future's looking good for slashdotters?
My favorite wine is $3.98 a bottle, and I'm not even sure grapes are involved.
Well 10/10 for honesty at least. Personally I go for paint stripper flavoured with Ribena. It has a robust, and yet almost insouciant cheekiness that lingers on the palate with hints of wild blackberry and exploding gas barbecue.
As of this writing, only 6 of 210 postings were at level 5 which just goes to show how pointlessly contentious this topic is. Maybe the Slashdot editors should think about a moratorium on climate topics for a while.
It's only really a contentious topic amongst extreme right wingers in the US, who are of course well represented on slashdot. In most of the rest of the civilised world, even conservatives generally accept that climate change is a reality.
Otherwise, you're just another nut on the internet claiming they've proved that Einstein was wrong about everything, but that no major publication will accept their work because they're all in on the conspiracy too.
Agreed. On BBC TV recently they featured a Syrian doctor who wanted to settle in the UK so that he could continue his medical practice. We were supposed to sympathise with him as a quiet middle-class man who just wanted to continue his quite middle-class life.
My thought instead was that with his country at war, his country needed doctors.
No, I think the point was simply that many asylum seekers aren't rapists and unemployable cut-throats as portrayed in the Daily Mail et al.
Anyway, if you're a Syrian and your choices are between supporting Assad and supporting ISIL, I think you have every right to say "the only way to win is not to play" and get on the first boat out of there.
Oh swb, you've been reading The Prince again!
Yeah, the version with crayon drawings and simplified text for the hard of thinking.
Or possibly it's a huge subtle troll, but I don't get that feeling.
Don't make jokes about Kickstarter. In slashdot terms that's like kicking a puppy.
Not a right, an entitlement. A right is something the government can not stop you from doing. An entitlement is something the government must provide you. The distinction is important. Governments do not provide anyone with rights. Governments can only take rights away.
"The government" can stop you from doing anything they like. Also, there are no pre-existing rights, only systems created by human beings.
Wild animals don't have governments, and they don't have rights.
People have the right of property
Only if society says they do.
A law professor probably would, but that doesn't make him right... it means he sees the world through man-made laws.
There are only man-made laws, unless you can somehow prove that God exists.
Slavery was once legal, it still exists in the world. Is that ok?
Or is it wrong and a violation of human rights, regardless of the law?
The point is that until enough people decided slavery was wrong and made it illegal, the imaginary "rights" of the slaves (to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, or whatever) were completely meaningless.
The homicide rate in Canada or in France is nowhere near the homicide rate in the US, yet, we are allow to own guns.
Canada and France don't allow you to carry a concealed revolver around with you, and there is no right to shoot muggers or burglars in "self defence". Also, there are serious restrictions on rifles, it's only really hunters who have guns.
"It's a 'right' that nobody in the UK wants." ... except those who do. If the "we" you're talking about were unanimous, it would not have needed a petition, never mind a law.
It's a case of the majority ruling.
For instance, while there are undoubtedly some paedophiles who would want the age of consent abolished entirely, most of us think a law preventing you from fucking babies is a good idea.
And, yes, this does infringe on the paedophiles' "rights".
Without a creator, a higher being, then we're just brutish cavemen and it just becomes survival of the fittest.
We don't have a creator. Society's laws are written by human beings.
Saudi Arabia is also violating those women's rights, what is your point?
Do you honestly think that people don't have a right to free speech, anywhere in the world, regardless of what governments do?
Do you think China's censorship is right or wrong?
At some point, basic human rights exist regardless of what laws are passed. Any law that attempts to limit such rights, is a violation of human rights.
But there are always some limits on these rights. If you had a right to absolutely free speech, there would be no defamation laws. If you had a right to absolute liberty, there would be no prisons. And so on.
Society agrees on what is or is not acceptable, there's not some series of Platonic Rights that they're reflecting.
notoriety
Notoriety means being famous for something bad. I don't think that's what you meant.
Mine was 2010, Ubuntu 10.04, now at 15.10. I will never go back to the dark side.
Right. I was using Linux in 1990, a year before it had been invented.
But you try telling kids today that and they won't believe you.
no you always say I don't know but I know how to research it.
"I don't know, but I can Google it".
That's what kids say when you ask them something like "when was the Second World War?"
If I was interviewing someone I would not be impressed with that answer.
The way to respond to a provocative question like that is to ask another question that bounces it back. That makes the question go away. I heard a similar piece of advice years ago about responding to the question "How are you with handling difficult co-workers?" The suggested answer was "Are you thinking of someone in particular?"
But a half-decent interviewer will be aware that you have dodged the question.
I'm not a big-e Professional Engineer, but I am a small-e engineer. I have a degree and everything :)
You can get a law degree and work in a law firm but if you're not admitted to the bar, you're not a lawyer.
Unlike law, medicine and traditional engineering fields, software development is completely unregulated with no real standard certifications (even a degree is optional).
Medicine is regulated?!?
Then why do I have to search among so many bad doctors to find a good one (obviously: regulations are not weeding out the bad ones)?
And why, when I take my body to the doctor, most of the time it feels like I'm taking my card to the automotive department at Sears?
I can't speak for where you live, but here in the UK you certainly have to be suitably qualified to practise as a doctor, same as a solicitor/barrister (lawyer).
You can't ensure a nice personality, but you can be sure they are technically competent.
Said professional engineers were also not explicitly qualified or certified, beyond having a degree in engineering.
In the UK you're either a Chartered Engineer, or you're not. It affects what you can call yourself and do legally.
It's like being a Chartered Accountant: does it mean that because you recently qualified you know more about accounting than someone unqualified who has been doing it for forty years? No, but you can sign as an auditor and they can't, simple as that.
No
It's a mote point. No matter what the opinion, the word Engineer is commonly included in computer related position titles (programming, networking, etc.) by companies, hiring agents, in normal conversation, etc. Once a new meaning for a word has entered the common vernacular it's near impossible to pull it back...
Yes, but it's like the difference between a quack calling himself "Doctor Happy" selling herbal diet pills and an actual MD with a recognised qualification.
You're not allowed to pass yourself off as the latter.
Hmmm the MI in MI5 & MI6 stands for Military Intelligence (Oxymoron's aside). Not sure where you're getting Secret Service from.
MI5 and MI6 are now officially known as the Security Service and Secret Intelligence Service respectively.