What I can't understand is anyone who ever in their lives did not have the common sense to treat women with absolute respect becoming a Supreme court justice.
Most children go through a stage where they slap their own mother in the face. Automatic disqualification to become Supreme Court judge? If not, why not? You said "ever in their lives".
I am going to go ahead and assume you did not mean toddlers. Then at what age?
There are many reasons why that isn't the case and also a whole hearted fuck you for excusing the behaviour.
I am not OP.
He did not excuse any behavior.
Here is a whole hearted fuck you for not understanding that society has agreed that crimes committed as children should not be used against that person as an adult because childhood is for learning limits and boundaries... and children WILL exceed those limits and boundaries from time to time.
The judge is a shitty person, but holding what he did as a child against him now that he is an adult is really fucked up. What kind of person are you?
The real tragedy here is that, as far as I know (I don't know much), the things people are pissed off at happened when he was still legally a child. It kind of doesn't matter what he did back then because we, as a society, specifically lock all records once a child turns 18 because childhood is a LEARNING experience and mistakes will be made.
Personally, I don't like the dude as a judge and I would vote against because of my dislike... but it disgusts me to see this behavior by adults trying to hold another adult accountable for something he did as a child.
Regarding smart phone sales: Americans are not buying those phones outright, they are making payments over time.
Think about that for a minute. The average American can not afford to buy a $1,000 item outright. They have to finance it, which increases the total cost of that $1,000 item by quite a bit.
How much is the typical deductible for insurance? It varies from policy to policy, but it would seem that paying the deductible in case the insurance was needed would put the average American up against the wall financially. God forbid anyone had two emergencies happen in the same month.
Nobody hears me, and I can understand why their minds are closed, so I am not upset about it. It is now your turn. My apologies beforehand.
Gravity is NOT one of the fundamental forces as has been believed forever. What is the effect that we call gravity if it is not a fundamental force?
Gravity is the acceleration felt by an object when time is moving faster on different sides of the object. In other words, gravity is merely the result of a time gradient.
The funny thing about the time gradient is that it falls off (speeds up) with distance from mass in the exact same curve that an objects gains mass as it gets closer to the speed of light.
This fully explains galactic rotation curves without the need to invoke Dark Matter. It also leads to some very interesting thoughts about the nature of spacetime and electromagnetism.
I don't know about you, or the person you are responding to, but for me, I am deeply annoyed by this. I did not buy a device to allow anyone in a position of authority to contact me. I don't care about their fucking alerts. I don't care if there is severe weather. I don't care if there is nuclear war. I don't care if some child has been abducted. I don't care if an 80 year old man escaped from his "home".
TL;DR, I bought my phone for MY use and it is being hijacked. Fuck that noise.
And for the record, I received TWO Presidential Alerts. My phone is now powered off.
The situation you have described absolutely COULD occur because of discrimination. It could also be that management tries to depress everyone's salaries and the fact that she was female was not even an issue. Not everyone is paid equally or fairly. It depends on what time of year you were hired and a little bit on your negotiating skills. I am certain you will find a similar situation with genders reversed quite frequently if you look. I see it.
If it is Trump, then, yes, you just hang out on too many lefty sites. Trump may be evil, but he is not proposing this, Andrew Wheeler, the head of the EPA is proposing this.
If you are talking about Andrew Wheeler, then, it sure would seem he is evil regardless of any lefty sites you hang out at.
Once Trump signs it, you can fairly call him evil over this.
What do they think they will find? An actually dangerous person will not travel with information so easily exposed, or, in other words, if someone is dumb enough to leave incriminating evidence easily viewable on their digital devices, by definition, they are not smart enough to be a true danger.
They will surely catch a few low level criminals with some sort of illegal information (what a weird concept... illegal information), but will catch nothing of State level importance. So, why? Why do this? It is like cutting off your nose to spite your face or maybe it is just common control freakery.
CERN, like many members of the community, considers that the presentation, with its attacks on individuals, was unacceptable in any professional context and was contrary to the CERN Code of Conduct. It, therefore, decided to remove the slides from the online repository."
Okay. So I read the document/presentation.
I bolded two particular concerns of mine:
Where are the attacks on individuals? Did I miss it? Is the wording poor and they meant attacks on groups?
contrary to the Code of Conduct... maybe I missed something here but since there are no individual attacks and no group attacks, what exactly was done that was contrary to the Code of Conduct? I did see a lot of discussion abut gender topics, but I saw no assertions from the writer; although I did see assertions by others who are cited. Perhaps the people who were cited should be subjected to the penalties of the Code of Conduct?
TL;DR, this shit is coming to Linux now that Linus has been manipulated. *sigh*
Are you really going to say an American should be allowed 3 times the carbon output of a Chinese citizen?
It is not the citizens of either country that are directing the CO2 output of either country. It is the corporations and governments doing so. It is uselessly stupid to measure by population.
To take it to an absurd example: Let's say that all manufacturing happened in one country with only one citizen. Is it useful to say that a single individual is blowing out gigatons of CO2? Ok, it is useful. Let's penalize him by executing that person. Now, what about the billions of people who were relying on that manufacturing?
While it's true that it's way better to burn methane than emit it, exactly how do you propose to do this with millions of acres of permafrost every year?
Give kids lighters and matches and set them loose up there? Most kids love playing with fire until they get burned.:)
Another idea, for the Air Force, use those places to do practice bombing runs with something like the MOAB https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... bomb.
Introduce a gene into the quadrillions of mosquitoes up there that make them explode instead of impregnating the females of the species. Takes care of two problems at once.:)
Crash an icy comet into the ocean to lower the temps so you don't even have to burn the methane. This would be proposed by the handsomest politicians and will permanently solve the problem! (Futurama)
"Train" a bacterium to "eat" methane and expel water and excess hydrogen.
The problem is everyone is willing to throw each other under the bus because they believe themselves 'rock stars' that will never run into those issues.
While I feel fairly certain that the problem you mention has some honesty to it, I sincerely doubt that is the only reason; otherwise, we would have unions for technology workers.
My thing is that I have seen how large unions work in America. If it is not controlled by a mafia-style leadership, then it is controlled by corrupt assholes to line their own pockets. In short, many large American unions do not act in the interests of their members. Why would anyone who is at least semi-intelligent submit to that kind of arrangement? Sure, there will be *some* benefit to the average worker, but ultimately, it will not be worth it. It is better to let the business owners slit their own throats.
I suspect you missed a point. To be fair, it is quite subtle. I will spell it out for you:
With intelligence as we know it (in all animals, including us) there are a series of "primitives" from which all other "recognition" functions are derived. Mystics have been researching this for thousands of years, from Buddha and Confucius to Crowley and modern AI researchers. There has been a lot of great insight into this, but modern AI researchers have an advantage in that they can use external deterministic machines to test their theories and insights.
You are correct that a dish washing AI doesn't "need" this level of detail, but then is it true intelligence or just a machine? It sounds more like you are discussing weak AI whereas I am discussing strong AI. I apologize if I intruded on the wrong discussion here. Have a nice day.:)
Why? We do all of this inside our neural nets. Object recognition, identification, analysis, abstraction, classification, and "symbolic" reasoning.. Sure the network needs to be more complicated, probably composed of many different functional "modules" working together to solve complex problems. But I see no reason to have to go outside.
Ultimately, because of the way that humans think. When completed, you can wrap it all up and call it "one thing" if that is your desire, but you can't have the same components doing different things without a level of foresight that is not possible with humans at this time. Evolve more and we can discuss this again with different outcomes.;)
I am not really trying to argue with you here. I just want to clarify a point:
Also, how does your perspective align with soldiers? Are you going to tell the one's that saw their friends blown to pieces that they should "Butch the fuck up" when they are having a flashback?
Long story short, I walked into the movie Saving Private Ryan without any clue whatsoever it about its content. The theater was full and there was only one seat available, front row center.
I sat down, saw some old guy at Arlington, and thought to myself, "Fuck. Why did I come to see this movie? This is going to be another "feel good" boring story."
So the old guy fades out and the next 20 minutes or so were just fucking intense. Totally unexpected to me. I sat through the ENTIRE movie without feeling the need to go smoke a cigarette. I was that riveted.
What is the point of all this?
I have had mortar and rocket rounds land around me. People have died in my vicinity. I have had bullets whiz by my head. I am speaking of being in an actual war zone with actual death being present.
While Saving Private Ryan was intense to view, it was nowhere near actually being there. It was a GREAT depiction, but there was no immediate danger for anyone in the audience and that makes a HUGE difference. Actually having a mortar round punch holes in your door where you are trying sleep is not even in the same book as watching a video about it. They are not similar experiences.
I am old enough to have seen pretty much everything, and I have. For some people, watching a video of an actual live dismemberment of a naked and helpless man could be traumatizing. I do not look down at someone who is traumatized by such things. Such things are not within normal human experience and are extreme.
You can not know beforehand if you would be traumatized by watching something or actually experiencing something. Even watching something will not let you know if you can handle the actuality of it.
Long story short, since it is possible for a person to be traumatized, there should be some attention given to that possibility. This is especially true since there is no way to tell beforehand whether or not a particular person could be traumatized merely by viewing an image.
All of that being said, it took me 9 months to recover enough to not be SEVERELY startled by sudden loud noises. I still get startled, but it is within expected norms nowadays. There is not a single image on this planet that could traumatize me at this point; although being submersed in such images for extended periods may require some R&R to keep my state of mind from thinking such things are normal.
Alcohol Causes One In 20 Deaths Worldwide, Says WHO
Alcohol CAUSES? Really?! I could believe that alcohol was a factor, but not a cause. It is like the drunk driving statistics. Person A hits and kills person B. Person C was a drunk passenger in Person B's car... and THAT is counted as a Drunk Driving death.
Just fucking stop with the agendas already. All these bullshit claims do is give a reason to people to act irrational. Just stop.
Honestly I think Facebook wins the current edition of the Evil Olympics among tech companies. But maybe Google is just a sneakier player and unfortunately the two of them combined are really hard to avoid if you give half a shit about your privacy.
Ummm... with Windows 10, Microsoft jumped squarely ahead of everyone in the Evil department. Neither Google nor Facebook have surveillance and control quite as unavoidable as Microsoft.
While I use Linux pretty much exclusively at home, at work, I constantly find new ways that Microsoft exfiltrates information. Yes, I am a "Security Engineer".
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What I can't understand is anyone who ever in their lives did not have the common sense to treat women with absolute respect becoming a Supreme court justice.
Most children go through a stage where they slap their own mother in the face. Automatic disqualification to become Supreme Court judge? If not, why not? You said "ever in their lives".
I am going to go ahead and assume you did not mean toddlers. Then at what age?
Society chose 18. Deal with it.
Kavanaugh needs to be in SCOTUS or in jail.
False Dichotomy.
He should not be nominated to the Supreme Court is another option. But not because of the accusations.
There are many reasons why that isn't the case and also a whole hearted fuck you for excusing the behaviour.
I am not OP.
He did not excuse any behavior.
Here is a whole hearted fuck you for not understanding that society has agreed that crimes committed as children should not be used against that person as an adult because childhood is for learning limits and boundaries... and children WILL exceed those limits and boundaries from time to time.
The judge is a shitty person, but holding what he did as a child against him now that he is an adult is really fucked up. What kind of person are you?
The real tragedy here is that, as far as I know (I don't know much), the things people are pissed off at happened when he was still legally a child. It kind of doesn't matter what he did back then because we, as a society, specifically lock all records once a child turns 18 because childhood is a LEARNING experience and mistakes will be made.
Personally, I don't like the dude as a judge and I would vote against because of my dislike... but it disgusts me to see this behavior by adults trying to hold another adult accountable for something he did as a child.
Regarding smart phone sales: Americans are not buying those phones outright, they are making payments over time.
Think about that for a minute. The average American can not afford to buy a $1,000 item outright. They have to finance it, which increases the total cost of that $1,000 item by quite a bit.
How much is the typical deductible for insurance? It varies from policy to policy, but it would seem that paying the deductible in case the insurance was needed would put the average American up against the wall financially. God forbid anyone had two emergencies happen in the same month.
Nobody hears me, and I can understand why their minds are closed, so I am not upset about it. It is now your turn. My apologies beforehand.
Gravity is NOT one of the fundamental forces as has been believed forever. What is the effect that we call gravity if it is not a fundamental force?
Gravity is the acceleration felt by an object when time is moving faster on different sides of the object. In other words, gravity is merely the result of a time gradient.
The funny thing about the time gradient is that it falls off (speeds up) with distance from mass in the exact same curve that an objects gains mass as it gets closer to the speed of light.
This fully explains galactic rotation curves without the need to invoke Dark Matter. It also leads to some very interesting thoughts about the nature of spacetime and electromagnetism.
If a business doesn't pay a living wage, that business doesn't deserve to exist.
Your ideals are naive. Good luck on making Wal-Mart not exist. :)
So what exactly is causing you issues with this?
I don't know about you, or the person you are responding to, but for me, I am deeply annoyed by this. I did not buy a device to allow anyone in a position of authority to contact me. I don't care about their fucking alerts. I don't care if there is severe weather. I don't care if there is nuclear war. I don't care if some child has been abducted. I don't care if an 80 year old man escaped from his "home".
TL;DR, I bought my phone for MY use and it is being hijacked. Fuck that noise.
And for the record, I received TWO Presidential Alerts. My phone is now powered off.
Regarding situation #1...
The situation you have described absolutely COULD occur because of discrimination. It could also be that management tries to depress everyone's salaries and the fact that she was female was not even an issue. Not everyone is paid equally or fairly. It depends on what time of year you were hired and a little bit on your negotiating skills. I am certain you will find a similar situation with genders reversed quite frequently if you look. I see it.
or is this man truly evil?
It depends on which man you are talking about.
If it is Trump, then, yes, you just hang out on too many lefty sites. Trump may be evil, but he is not proposing this, Andrew Wheeler, the head of the EPA is proposing this.
If you are talking about Andrew Wheeler, then, it sure would seem he is evil regardless of any lefty sites you hang out at.
Once Trump signs it, you can fairly call him evil over this.
What do they think they will find? An actually dangerous person will not travel with information so easily exposed, or, in other words, if someone is dumb enough to leave incriminating evidence easily viewable on their digital devices, by definition, they are not smart enough to be a true danger.
They will surely catch a few low level criminals with some sort of illegal information (what a weird concept... illegal information), but will catch nothing of State level importance. So, why? Why do this? It is like cutting off your nose to spite your face or maybe it is just common control freakery.
CERN, like many members of the community, considers that the presentation, with its attacks on individuals, was unacceptable in any professional context and was contrary to the CERN Code of Conduct. It, therefore, decided to remove the slides from the online repository."
Okay. So I read the document/presentation.
I bolded two particular concerns of mine:
Where are the attacks on individuals? Did I miss it? Is the wording poor and they meant attacks on groups?
contrary to the Code of Conduct... maybe I missed something here but since there are no individual attacks and no group attacks, what exactly was done that was contrary to the Code of Conduct? I did see a lot of discussion abut gender topics, but I saw no assertions from the writer; although I did see assertions by others who are cited. Perhaps the people who were cited should be subjected to the penalties of the Code of Conduct?
TL;DR, this shit is coming to Linux now that Linus has been manipulated. *sigh*
But again, our current understanding is that gravity is the curvature of space and time.
Gravity is the effect of a time gradient across space.
So, if anti-matter were actually fallen up you can throw general relativity out of the window.
You are correct. Anti-matter can not fall up any more than reversing time can reverse sequences of events.
I fail to see a problem here. Why does this require government intervention?
Are you really going to say an American should be allowed 3 times the carbon output of a Chinese citizen?
It is not the citizens of either country that are directing the CO2 output of either country. It is the corporations and governments doing so. It is uselessly stupid to measure by population.
To take it to an absurd example: Let's say that all manufacturing happened in one country with only one citizen. Is it useful to say that a single individual is blowing out gigatons of CO2? Ok, it is useful. Let's penalize him by executing that person. Now, what about the billions of people who were relying on that manufacturing?
While it's true that it's way better to burn methane than emit it, exactly how do you propose to do this with millions of acres of permafrost every year?
Give kids lighters and matches and set them loose up there? Most kids love playing with fire until they get burned. :)
Another idea, for the Air Force, use those places to do practice bombing runs with something like the MOAB https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... bomb.
Introduce a gene into the quadrillions of mosquitoes up there that make them explode instead of impregnating the females of the species. Takes care of two problems at once. :)
Crash an icy comet into the ocean to lower the temps so you don't even have to burn the methane. This would be proposed by the handsomest politicians and will permanently solve the problem! (Futurama)
"Train" a bacterium to "eat" methane and expel water and excess hydrogen.
Be creative. There are surely solutions. ;)
Long time no see bro. (megaton here)
I gave (give) a shit about you and I am a Gen-X'er too :)
Are you and Angel_X11 still together? It has been a decade since we last spoke.
BTW, my username/password is still active on your servers but there is no home directory so I can't do anything. *sigh*
The problem is everyone is willing to throw each other under the bus because they believe themselves 'rock stars' that will never run into those issues.
While I feel fairly certain that the problem you mention has some honesty to it, I sincerely doubt that is the only reason; otherwise, we would have unions for technology workers.
My thing is that I have seen how large unions work in America. If it is not controlled by a mafia-style leadership, then it is controlled by corrupt assholes to line their own pockets. In short, many large American unions do not act in the interests of their members. Why would anyone who is at least semi-intelligent submit to that kind of arrangement? Sure, there will be *some* benefit to the average worker, but ultimately, it will not be worth it. It is better to let the business owners slit their own throats.
I suspect you missed a point. To be fair, it is quite subtle. I will spell it out for you:
With intelligence as we know it (in all animals, including us) there are a series of "primitives" from which all other "recognition" functions are derived. Mystics have been researching this for thousands of years, from Buddha and Confucius to Crowley and modern AI researchers. There has been a lot of great insight into this, but modern AI researchers have an advantage in that they can use external deterministic machines to test their theories and insights.
You are correct that a dish washing AI doesn't "need" this level of detail, but then is it true intelligence or just a machine? It sounds more like you are discussing weak AI whereas I am discussing strong AI. I apologize if I intruded on the wrong discussion here. Have a nice day. :)
Why? We do all of this inside our neural nets. Object recognition, identification, analysis, abstraction, classification, and "symbolic" reasoning.. Sure the network needs to be more complicated, probably composed of many different functional "modules" working together to solve complex problems. But I see no reason to have to go outside.
Ultimately, because of the way that humans think. When completed, you can wrap it all up and call it "one thing" if that is your desire, but you can't have the same components doing different things without a level of foresight that is not possible with humans at this time. Evolve more and we can discuss this again with different outcomes. ;)
I am not really trying to argue with you here. I just want to clarify a point:
Also, how does your perspective align with soldiers? Are you going to tell the one's that saw their friends blown to pieces that they should "Butch the fuck up" when they are having a flashback?
Long story short, I walked into the movie Saving Private Ryan without any clue whatsoever it about its content. The theater was full and there was only one seat available, front row center.
I sat down, saw some old guy at Arlington, and thought to myself, "Fuck. Why did I come to see this movie? This is going to be another "feel good" boring story."
So the old guy fades out and the next 20 minutes or so were just fucking intense. Totally unexpected to me. I sat through the ENTIRE movie without feeling the need to go smoke a cigarette. I was that riveted.
What is the point of all this?
I have had mortar and rocket rounds land around me. People have died in my vicinity. I have had bullets whiz by my head. I am speaking of being in an actual war zone with actual death being present.
While Saving Private Ryan was intense to view, it was nowhere near actually being there. It was a GREAT depiction, but there was no immediate danger for anyone in the audience and that makes a HUGE difference. Actually having a mortar round punch holes in your door where you are trying sleep is not even in the same book as watching a video about it. They are not similar experiences.
I am old enough to have seen pretty much everything, and I have. For some people, watching a video of an actual live dismemberment of a naked and helpless man could be traumatizing. I do not look down at someone who is traumatized by such things. Such things are not within normal human experience and are extreme.
You can not know beforehand if you would be traumatized by watching something or actually experiencing something. Even watching something will not let you know if you can handle the actuality of it.
Long story short, since it is possible for a person to be traumatized, there should be some attention given to that possibility. This is especially true since there is no way to tell beforehand whether or not a particular person could be traumatized merely by viewing an image.
All of that being said, it took me 9 months to recover enough to not be SEVERELY startled by sudden loud noises. I still get startled, but it is within expected norms nowadays. There is not a single image on this planet that could traumatize me at this point; although being submersed in such images for extended periods may require some R&R to keep my state of mind from thinking such things are normal.
Some of the best, and definitely the worst comments, all seem to come from Mr. Anonymous Coward. This is one of the best. Thank you kind sir.
Alcohol Causes One In 20 Deaths Worldwide, Says WHO
Alcohol CAUSES? Really?! I could believe that alcohol was a factor, but not a cause. It is like the drunk driving statistics. Person A hits and kills person B. Person C was a drunk passenger in Person B's car... and THAT is counted as a Drunk Driving death.
Just fucking stop with the agendas already. All these bullshit claims do is give a reason to people to act irrational. Just stop.
Honestly I think Facebook wins the current edition of the Evil Olympics among tech companies. But maybe Google is just a sneakier player and unfortunately the two of them combined are really hard to avoid if you give half a shit about your privacy.
Ummm... with Windows 10, Microsoft jumped squarely ahead of everyone in the Evil department. Neither Google nor Facebook have surveillance and control quite as unavoidable as Microsoft.
While I use Linux pretty much exclusively at home, at work, I constantly find new ways that Microsoft exfiltrates information. Yes, I am a "Security Engineer".
You describe a contrived scenario that doesn't need to happen at all, much less require logging in to Chrome itself to resolve it. Fuck that noise.