I'm not talking about how your neighbors treat you on the street. I'm talking about the government policy to restrict the immigration on racial grounds. Have you tried to settle permanently in Japan and get the citizenship? It is almost impossible unless you have Japanese roots. It's no coincidence that Japan is one of the most racially pure countries on Earth (99% Japanese) as it is a deliberate policy. My point is that we treat it as racism when we are even slightly bit reluctant to grant citizenship to 11 million illegal immigrants while we don't apply the same standards to other countries, Japan being one of the biggest offenders.
I'm going to point out that Japan is not a melting pot country. Just because the USA lets everyone in (I don't have a problem with that) and other countries are more open about letting people in, does not mean it's wrong, or even racist if a country wants to keep it's heritage intact. Japan is in it's rights, and I find nothing wrong with it. If Japan doesn't want you to become a citizen because you aren't Japanese, so fucking what? Maybe you need to recheck why you find it so important to be a citizen of their country, most likely selfish reason that do nothing to promote Japan's interests.
If Japan starts killing foreigners in their country then ya, maybe they might have a racist problem, but as far as I can tell, Japan doesn't have a problem letting people come visit. Seems to me if you are a racist country, then you wouldn't open your doors to tourism.
If we treated foreign immigrants like Japan does you would call us fascists. With aging population Japan desperately needs workforce and still it refuses to allow almost any immigration through pure xenophobia and racism.
Sounds like they have a plan to keep japan from over populating. Anyways, they are building robots, like you need workers when you have robots!
Indeed, it should be entirely privately funded. Thus we can focus on the research that matters: only that which can be monetized within the next 4 quarters or sooner!
Privately funded by who, Corporations? They only care about making money, not saving the planet.
I'm sort of lost here. Granted I know very little about this subject, but what I do know is black holes are far away. And entangled pairs are really fucking small. So how the hell can we see entangled pairs at the event horizon of a black hole? Seems to me if we can see stuff that small, that far away, finding planets similar to ours would be easy, since they are very very very much bigger.
Sure the WiiU isn't a success as much as they would like. But it leaves Nintendo with what I consider a great position in the play field. MS & Sony spent a ton of money on their new "next gen" systems, which compared to current PC terms, aren't really next gen. Nintendo can spend the next 2 years designing a new console. They don't need to hurry, they can get it right. Cheap, powerful, and better then "next gen" consoles that will be here in a few months.
Build up a decent online market/hang out place. Make sure you have the correct games out at launch. Super Mario Brothers, Zelda, Pokemon.
While controllers like a Wiimote are nice, make it so all the games have the ability to run with a normal gamepad, so games don't force you to use it for some gimmick move, when could play the game fine with a normal gamepad.
Backwards compatability won't be necessary because WiiU units can still be sold for cheap.
Yes it was. It was designed to keep the rich voting (only land owners were allowed to vote), Men only (women were not allowed to vote), and of course, the lawyers were the ones making the laws.
It's worked out really great. Now the 1% own everything and run the country, while the rest of us get the illusion that our vote actually means something, in this Corporate Fascist Country that the USA has become.
US President Barack Obama had assured German Chancellor Angela Merkel that the US is not monitoring her communications, according to the White House spokesman.
For its part, the White House denied that the U.S. is listening in on Merkel's phone calls now.
"The president assured the chancellor that the United States is not monitoring and will not monitor the communications of the chancellor," White House spokesman Jay Carney said. "The United States greatly values our close cooperation with Germany on a broad range of shared security challenges."
Maybe when he said U.S. he actually meant us, as in him & his wife? Or that will be his next excuse?
Working that job made me realize that schools *must* have a personal finances class which goes over budgeting, avoiding scams, and setting up an affordable household.
The public schools already teach this. My daughter is in high school, and she had the class last year. It is called "Life Skills". They learn to budget and invest. They write a resume, dress in business attire, and attend a mock job interview. They also learn to plan and cook meals using a budget and nutritional information. It is an elective class, but nearly everyone takes it (it is an easy A, plus you get to make and eat cookies).
The problem is that some people are just fundamentally stupid and irresponsible. No amount of education is going to fix that. The main problem is that these people can vote, so their irresponsibility is inflicted on all of us. If you run up twice your disposable income in credit card debt to pay for useless bling, then why shouldn't the government do the same?
You can not learn enough "Life Skills" in a semester of school. It's shit your parents need to teach you growing up.
It serves a useful purpose, if you use it for a short term needs. When I was an undergraduate in upstate New York, the "College Housing" cartels charged more than double the market rate for furnished apartments with shorter-term leases. It made far more sense to rent an unfurnished apartment intended for the locals with a one year lease, and just pay the extra rent for the two months most of us weren't there in the summer. Since most 18-21 year olds don't own furniture, nor wanted to be responsible for moving / storing / dealing with it. we could annually rent a full living room set with a big television - no one was responsible for buying it, we didn't have to split up possessions between roommates at the end of the year, and splitting the cost of all of it between four guys for 8-10 months was reasonable. At the end of the academic term we would call up the rental company and have them pick it all up. Next fall, we'd get the latest and greatest for that year delivered and moved in. rinse and repeat.
Nice. We'd rent a house, hit up the goodwill/classfied ads (no craigslist in those days), and not worry about it. Shit would get thrashed, would never be able to rent it, because we'd have to pay full price for it because it would be damaged. Why? Because we were a bunch of 18+ year olds, living on our own and had no adult supervision. We'd have parties, because, well it's college and that is what you do. TV? why, we were in college, if we weren't partying, we were maybe studying.
Just curious, how much does the NSA pay you for these posts? I'm broke, the holidays are coming out, and I don't mind stepping on my morals to help the US fuck over the world.
No, the expensive hardware is bundled with it, not the other way around. You can go to the store and buy a copy with no hardware whatsoever, then install it on some used $200 Macbook from craigslist. I have one six or seven years old that runs it happily.
Is it free? Because the discussion is the OS isn't really free, regardless of a free upgrade.
No, you paid for those OS's that were NOT bundled with hardware.
Lobbying should be outlawed, because it's doesn't fairly represent the people. Laws shouldn't be introduced or passed because a lot of money is throw at the law makers.
Problem is, if Google doesn't spend the money, then the other companies that are spending the money are going to be heard, not Google.
Valve's shitty application stopped working, and now I can't install or run any of the games I bought (read: rented) from them. Their techsupport is somewhere between non-existent and not-giving-a-shit. I am even locked out of the non-drm games (most of the ones I have bought), because I cannot download them without the stupid Steam application.
Lots of money flushed down the drain to a company that simply does not care. Never again.
They're compact enough to throw in a messenger bag along with a laptop.
And when somebody takes your messenger bag, *poof* there goes your data AND your backup. Happened to my father, he was always backing stuff up. But he put his backup in his laptop bag. His truck was broken into one evening and the laptop bag was stolen. The data on the laptop was worth many multiples of the cost of the laptop. He would have been happier if they left the bag and took the truck! A fairly new truck that was worth less than the data lost.
I hope you dad learned not to store the backup and the laptop together, and to not leave valuable stuff like that in a vehicle. I mean, if you are looking for sympathy, you won't find it. Your dad was being stupid.
I'm the author of the post. You are completely and utterly wrong, and clearly ignorant about how Box.com works.
I invited others to share some, but not all, of my box folders. I can actually control the level of access they have to each. I didn't give them my own login and passwords, they created their own. They didn't have access to my entire Box account, only the folders I chose. I could allow them to simply view files, or to edit and upload.
So nobody had my password and login but me and Box. I did not violate anyone's TOS. And if I had not identified myself as a member of the press who was writing a story about this, it is highly unlikely I would have gotten any answers from Box at all.
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Dude, you are funny. You do know that storing stuff on the cloud isn't backing it up, right? That you can lose it at any time? Ya, Mr. I've written a book who's advice I don't follow.
Sure, the cloud is a convient way to access your stuff, but you can lose it at any time. Remember what happened to MegaUpload? Ya, all those legal files, poof!!!!!
So next time, don't be stupid, don't store your only copies of stuff in the cloud, keep a local backup, plus 2 "cloud" backups.
But he reserved his harshest words for the girl's parents for failing to monitor her behavior
Children are sociopaths until they learn better / their frontal lobes finish developing. It's the parents who are at fault here.
No they aren't. Kids are find when they are younger, it's when they start going to school that the bad shit happens. Suddenly kids are put in a world of other kids, and who do all the kids emulate? Us. People older then them. TV shows, movies, books. We show them an "adult" world and expect kids to not behave like we do? They are not mentally able to deal with an adult world, yet that is what they emulate.
But other then that, kids need to develop a backbone. Ya, it sucks when you get bullied, but it's not the end of the world. But then for kids, when you haven't had that much of a life and you have years and years of school left, maybe it is the end of the world as they can see it.
P.S. Why is it that the best American investigative journalists work for British publications? Do British investigative journalists work for American publications?
Yes, John Oliver works for the Daily Show.
Oh, wait, you said investigative journalists and he's a comedian, well, that about the same these days.
Why is this here? How the fuck is this relevant to slashdot? No tech angles in play here. It doesn't matter if you don't live in China. Mind your own fucking business.
There are numerous China blogs that cover this stuff better and more extensively.
I miss the host files rants, now it's all "Why is this here?" posts. how fucking boring.
And they din't use the sonic screwdriver as a deux es machina to get out of any tricky situation, rather than the Doctor using his intelligence and wits. Today, the screwdriver is a euphemism for lazy, sloppy writing. No wonder John Nathan-Turner got rid of it in 1982!
Indeed a good point. If I remember right it wasn't even introduced until episode 42 (Fury From the Deep) and used quite sparingly for the most part. Of course, since the Doctor has now transformed into Magical Space Jesus, he doesn't even need his now ridiculously powerful and versatile sonic screwdriver to work miracles. He can just stand up on a rooftop or a rock and tell a whole alien battle fleet to run away, and instead of him being immediately reduced to a pile of smoking ashes the powerful aliens actually run away! Isn't that great?
Aaaaand that pretty much sums up why I can no longer watch any new Doctor Who. Or Bond films, for that matter. Same phenomenon. So many things these days have become caricatures of themselves with no substance beneath the immaculate surface.
While I can basically agree about what you are saying, I think you are missing out on the new bond films. Danial Craig is a more realistic James Bond then any ever before and the movies seem to capture a more truer essense of what it would be like spying, then the bond movies with cheese galore before him.
BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC is selling them. Their profits, believe or not, go right back in to the BBC! Why don't we just start giving away DVD's of the Top Gear while we are at too?
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I'm not talking about how your neighbors treat you on the street. I'm talking about the government policy to restrict the immigration on racial grounds. Have you tried to settle permanently in Japan and get the citizenship? It is almost impossible unless you have Japanese roots. It's no coincidence that Japan is one of the most racially pure countries on Earth (99% Japanese) as it is a deliberate policy. My point is that we treat it as racism when we are even slightly bit reluctant to grant citizenship to 11 million illegal immigrants while we don't apply the same standards to other countries, Japan being one of the biggest offenders.
I'm going to point out that Japan is not a melting pot country. Just because the USA lets everyone in (I don't have a problem with that) and other countries are more open about letting people in, does not mean it's wrong, or even racist if a country wants to keep it's heritage intact. Japan is in it's rights, and I find nothing wrong with it. If Japan doesn't want you to become a citizen because you aren't Japanese, so fucking what? Maybe you need to recheck why you find it so important to be a citizen of their country, most likely selfish reason that do nothing to promote Japan's interests.
If Japan starts killing foreigners in their country then ya, maybe they might have a racist problem, but as far as I can tell, Japan doesn't have a problem letting people come visit. Seems to me if you are a racist country, then you wouldn't open your doors to tourism.
If we treated foreign immigrants like Japan does you would call us fascists. With aging population Japan desperately needs workforce and still it refuses to allow almost any immigration through pure xenophobia and racism.
Sounds like they have a plan to keep japan from over populating. Anyways, they are building robots, like you need workers when you have robots!
Indeed, it should be entirely privately funded. Thus we can focus on the research that matters: only that which can be monetized within the next 4 quarters or sooner!
Privately funded by who, Corporations? They only care about making money, not saving the planet.
I'm sort of lost here. Granted I know very little about this subject, but what I do know is black holes are far away. And entangled pairs are really fucking small. So how the hell can we see entangled pairs at the event horizon of a black hole? Seems to me if we can see stuff that small, that far away, finding planets similar to ours would be easy, since they are very very very much bigger.
Sure the WiiU isn't a success as much as they would like. But it leaves Nintendo with what I consider a great position in the play field. MS & Sony spent a ton of money on their new "next gen" systems, which compared to current PC terms, aren't really next gen. Nintendo can spend the next 2 years designing a new console. They don't need to hurry, they can get it right. Cheap, powerful, and better then "next gen" consoles that will be here in a few months.
Build up a decent online market/hang out place. Make sure you have the correct games out at launch. Super Mario Brothers, Zelda, Pokemon.
While controllers like a Wiimote are nice, make it so all the games have the ability to run with a normal gamepad, so games don't force you to use it for some gimmick move, when could play the game fine with a normal gamepad.
Backwards compatability won't be necessary because WiiU units can still be sold for cheap.
The system was designed to scale just fine. ...
Yes it was. It was designed to keep the rich voting (only land owners were allowed to vote), Men only (women were not allowed to vote), and of course, the lawyers were the ones making the laws.
It's worked out really great. Now the 1% own everything and run the country, while the rest of us get the illusion that our vote actually means something, in this Corporate Fascist Country that the USA has become.
From http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2013/10/us-denies-tapping-merkel-mobile-phone-20131023185133142198.html ---
US President Barack Obama had assured German Chancellor Angela Merkel that the US is not monitoring her communications, according to the White House spokesman.
From http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-24647268
The White House said President Obama had told Chancellor Merkel the US was not snooping on her communications.
"The United States is not monitoring and will not monitor the communications of the chancellor," White House spokesman Jay Carney said on Wednesday.
From http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/23/merkel-phone-tapped_n_4150812.html
For its part, the White House denied that the U.S. is listening in on Merkel's phone calls now.
"The president assured the chancellor that the United States is not monitoring and will not monitor the communications of the chancellor," White House spokesman Jay Carney said. "The United States greatly values our close cooperation with Germany on a broad range of shared security challenges."
Maybe when he said U.S. he actually meant us, as in him & his wife? Or that will be his next excuse?
Working that job made me realize that schools *must* have a personal finances class which goes over budgeting, avoiding scams, and setting up an affordable household.
The public schools already teach this. My daughter is in high school, and she had the class last year. It is called "Life Skills". They learn to budget and invest. They write a resume, dress in business attire, and attend a mock job interview. They also learn to plan and cook meals using a budget and nutritional information. It is an elective class, but nearly everyone takes it (it is an easy A, plus you get to make and eat cookies).
The problem is that some people are just fundamentally stupid and irresponsible. No amount of education is going to fix that. The main problem is that these people can vote, so their irresponsibility is inflicted on all of us. If you run up twice your disposable income in credit card debt to pay for useless bling, then why shouldn't the government do the same?
You can not learn enough "Life Skills" in a semester of school. It's shit your parents need to teach you growing up.
This is why all of my furniture is made from steel reinforced concrete. Sure, the pillows are a bit hard, but it's a small cost for peace of mind!
Sorry to hear that you are in county lock up.
It serves a useful purpose, if you use it for a short term needs. When I was an undergraduate in upstate New York, the "College Housing" cartels charged more than double the market rate for furnished apartments with shorter-term leases. It made far more sense to rent an unfurnished apartment intended for the locals with a one year lease, and just pay the extra rent for the two months most of us weren't there in the summer. Since most 18-21 year olds don't own furniture, nor wanted to be responsible for moving / storing / dealing with it. we could annually rent a full living room set with a big television - no one was responsible for buying it, we didn't have to split up possessions between roommates at the end of the year, and splitting the cost of all of it between four guys for 8-10 months was reasonable. At the end of the academic term we would call up the rental company and have them pick it all up. Next fall, we'd get the latest and greatest for that year delivered and moved in. rinse and repeat.
Nice. We'd rent a house, hit up the goodwill/classfied ads (no craigslist in those days), and not worry about it. Shit would get thrashed, would never be able to rent it, because we'd have to pay full price for it because it would be damaged. Why? Because we were a bunch of 18+ year olds, living on our own and had no adult supervision. We'd have parties, because, well it's college and that is what you do. TV? why, we were in college, if we weren't partying, we were maybe studying.
and we are all surprised?
Just curious, how much does the NSA pay you for these posts? I'm broke, the holidays are coming out, and I don't mind stepping on my morals to help the US fuck over the world.
No, the expensive hardware is bundled with it, not the other way around. You can go to the store and buy a copy with no hardware whatsoever, then install it on some used $200 Macbook from craigslist. I have one six or seven years old that runs it happily.
Is it free? Because the discussion is the OS isn't really free, regardless of a free upgrade.
No, you paid for those OS's that were NOT bundled with hardware.
Lobbying should be outlawed, because it's doesn't fairly represent the people. Laws shouldn't be introduced or passed because a lot of money is throw at the law makers.
Problem is, if Google doesn't spend the money, then the other companies that are spending the money are going to be heard, not Google.
Bullshit system that needs to be outlawed.
What a wanker. You posted them, don't apologize. Say, "Fuck ya, I posted those. You like?"
Because I thought they were great myself. Sorry you lost a job, but in reality, you are better off.
Valve's shitty application stopped working, and now I can't install or run any of the games I bought (read: rented) from them. Their techsupport is somewhere between non-existent and not-giving-a-shit. I am even locked out of the non-drm games (most of the ones I have bought), because I cannot download them without the stupid Steam application.
Lots of money flushed down the drain to a company that simply does not care. Never again.
What does your idiocy have to do with the cloud?
And when somebody takes your messenger bag, *poof* there goes your data AND your backup. Happened to my father, he was always backing stuff up. But he put his backup in his laptop bag. His truck was broken into one evening and the laptop bag was stolen. The data on the laptop was worth many multiples of the cost of the laptop. He would have been happier if they left the bag and took the truck! A fairly new truck that was worth less than the data lost.
I hope you dad learned not to store the backup and the laptop together, and to not leave valuable stuff like that in a vehicle. I mean, if you are looking for sympathy, you won't find it. Your dad was being stupid.
I'm the author of the post. You are completely and utterly wrong, and clearly ignorant about how Box.com works.
I invited others to share some, but not all, of my box folders. I can actually control the level of access they have to each. I didn't give them my own login and passwords, they created their own. They didn't have access to my entire Box account, only the folders I chose. I could allow them to simply view files, or to edit and upload.
So nobody had my password and login but me and Box. I did not violate anyone's TOS. And if I had not identified myself as a member of the press who was writing a story about this, it is highly unlikely I would have gotten any answers from Box at all.
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Dude, you are funny. You do know that storing stuff on the cloud isn't backing it up, right? That you can lose it at any time? Ya, Mr. I've written a book who's advice I don't follow.
Sure, the cloud is a convient way to access your stuff, but you can lose it at any time. Remember what happened to MegaUpload? Ya, all those legal files, poof!!!!!
So next time, don't be stupid, don't store your only copies of stuff in the cloud, keep a local backup, plus 2 "cloud" backups.
Thanks for the laugh.
Actually they are supposed to be spying on *enemy governments*.
Problem is we dont have any more of those left, ...
The way the USA is going, it's that is all it's going to have left...
But he reserved his harshest words for the girl's parents for failing to monitor her behavior
Children are sociopaths until they learn better / their frontal lobes finish developing. It's the parents who are at fault here.
No they aren't. Kids are find when they are younger, it's when they start going to school that the bad shit happens. Suddenly kids are put in a world of other kids, and who do all the kids emulate? Us. People older then them. TV shows, movies, books. We show them an "adult" world and expect kids to not behave like we do? They are not mentally able to deal with an adult world, yet that is what they emulate.
But other then that, kids need to develop a backbone. Ya, it sucks when you get bullied, but it's not the end of the world. But then for kids, when you haven't had that much of a life and you have years and years of school left, maybe it is the end of the world as they can see it.
...
P.S. Why is it that the best American investigative journalists work for British publications? Do British investigative journalists work for American publications?
Yes, John Oliver works for the Daily Show.
Oh, wait, you said investigative journalists and he's a comedian, well, that about the same these days.
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Jesus never existed? What sort of delusion are you suffering from?
Jesus does my lawn. He does great work. I found him outside Home Depot looking for work.
Why is this here? How the fuck is this relevant to slashdot? No tech angles in play here. It doesn't matter if you don't live in China. Mind your own fucking business.
There are numerous China blogs that cover this stuff better and more extensively.
I miss the host files rants, now it's all "Why is this here?" posts. how fucking boring.
And they din't use the sonic screwdriver as a deux es machina to get out of any tricky situation, rather than the Doctor using his intelligence and wits. Today, the screwdriver is a euphemism for lazy, sloppy writing. No wonder John Nathan-Turner got rid of it in 1982!
Indeed a good point. If I remember right it wasn't even introduced until episode 42 (Fury From the Deep) and used quite sparingly for the most part. Of course, since the Doctor has now transformed into Magical Space Jesus, he doesn't even need his now ridiculously powerful and versatile sonic screwdriver to work miracles. He can just stand up on a rooftop or a rock and tell a whole alien battle fleet to run away, and instead of him being immediately reduced to a pile of smoking ashes the powerful aliens actually run away! Isn't that great?
Aaaaand that pretty much sums up why I can no longer watch any new Doctor Who. Or Bond films, for that matter. Same phenomenon. So many things these days have become caricatures of themselves with no substance beneath the immaculate surface.
While I can basically agree about what you are saying, I think you are missing out on the new bond films. Danial Craig is a more realistic James Bond then any ever before and the movies seem to capture a more truer essense of what it would be like spying, then the bond movies with cheese galore before him.
BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC is selling them. Their profits, believe or not, go right back in to the BBC! Why don't we just start giving away DVD's of the Top Gear while we are at too?
https://thepiratebay.sx/search/top%20gear/0/99/205
Individual episodes, easily converted to DVD for ya, for free.
This is the internet, if it can be digitized, you can find it for free generally.