Or they'll just enjoy having a 5x lower murder rate than USA.
You are saying that having a lower chance of being murdered is worth any tyranny that can be visited upon you by a government.
Not all governments are benign. My favorite example is WW2 German government; although a better example is the Khmer Rouge of Cambodia.
To be fair, at this point in time, the Australian government is benign enough; but if you look at history, all systems of government become tyrannical, so essentially, you are trading freedom from murder at this point in time for the wholesale slaughter of your descendants at some point in the future.
You are welcome to make whatever choice you want, but I will call your choice a cowardly one. You want your safety NOW regardless of the safety of your descendants. I can understand your choice, but know that it is a cowardly choice.
I am too lazy to read how the person above you used "master" your emotions. If they really meant "suppress", then I agree what you said about it.
For myself, "mastering emotion" is more like mastering the skill of riding a horse. Your emotions are the horse and you are the rider. Emotions, relatively speaking, are much stronger than 'You' are. Engage in hand-to-hand combat at your own peril.
You can not make a horse submit. You can not make your emotions submit. You can suppress them or some other delaying tactic, but those tactics have prices too.
No. You ride your horse. Don't try to fight it and don't let it drag you down the dusty trail.
Before everyone goes yelling and screaming about how they have no use for this right now and that the eye can't tell a difference, I would like to say that 8K monitors are something that is desirable for anyone who has to sit in front of a computer all day.
I remember going from 320x240 to 640x480 to 1024x768 to 1900x1200 to 2560x1600, back down to 1366x768 to 1920x1080 to 2560x1440 and currently at 3840x2160.
Each increase in resolution brought a general increase in DPI. We have been hanging at around 93DPI for many years now. Functional, but relatively poor, optical scanners will scan at 300 DPI. Higher quality scanners will scan at 600 DPI.
What makes anyone think that hovering around 100 DPI for reading text on a screen is a good idea?
At 3840x2160, the jagged edges of fonts are almost gone. I can still see them but at such a low level that it is almost subconscious. A doubling of resolution should make that all go away PERMANENTLY.
Concerning "content". Honestly, as long as the story is good, it could be animated with stick figures and would still be extremely pleasurable. That being said, being able to discern details down to where you can not subconsciously apprehend detail anymore is very pleasurable. There will eventually be content out there for 8K. In the meantime, use them as the awesome computer monitors that they can be.
At least you are honest. I rarely drink alcohol and yet my social life is fine. That being said, I do not think that the behavior of social drinking should be called alcoholism.
That is just nonsense (and, actually, irresponsible). For one, ANYTHING you are doing that requires your peak senses and/or rationality will be negatively impacted by using Marijuana.
Bear with me for a moment because this is going to be very unpopular: Marijuana, in specific doses, can actually heighten mental capabilities for people with a particular configuration of brain chemistry. Just like amphetamines, in specific doses, can make people sleepy when they have a particular brain chemistry.
Obviously, on a large scale, amphetamines hype people up and marijuana slows people down. It is good to view with suspicion anyone who claims they are exempt from the average but it is poor form to deny absolutely that they are exempt from the average.
I agree. The only reason to look for habitable planets is to discover whether or not life has evolved elsewhere. As far as living off of planet Earth goes, it will be in a "spaceship" and it will likely travel from nebula to nebula picking up basic atoms and molecules for "fuel" or expansion of the spaceship. There is no reason at all to live on planets once we are fully space faring.
My only sadness is that I will not be participating in the space faring civilization. *sob*
LOL. If the human body were a simply combustion chamber, like in your car's engine, I would agree with your simplistic view. Storing/burning fat is not as simple as "too many calories, store as fat, too few calories, burn fat.", if it were, we could look at everyone who is fat and morally shame them without worrying about whether or not we are being unfair.
My judgements are based on physical laws, you might as well be arguing with me about gravity here
Funny that you should mention that.:)
Gravity is NOT a fundamental force as you and most people tend to believe. It is the result of acceleration due to time differentials. Go ahead and dismiss this without further thought as I am sure you will; however, you should probably answer this before you do if you want to sleep without any nagging doubts in your mind:
Time flows more slowly the closer to a mass you get. For example, GPS satellites orbiting the Earth need to account for this aspect of Relativity http://www.astronomy.ohio-stat... , about 3/4 of the way down for the relevant information. What would you expect to see happen if time was flowing at different speeds but you were sitting still? For myself, and apparently I may be alone in this, I would expect to feel an acceleration since I can't satisfy both time references by staying still.
All weight gain is certainly not due to being a pig. Pigs actually know when to stop
Again with the judgemental attitude. Relax bro. Life is not that serious. We all leave this place sooner or later. Try to make it more fun since it is all ephemeral.:)
I am sitting here smiling. I did not participate in the cryptocurrency craze. I knew there was money to be made, or lost, but making money with cryptocurrency (not mining, but investing) felt unethical to me, so I didn't participate.
I am smiling at the karmic experience going on here. Many who were "investing" were trying to get something for nothing.
Cute. I like your judgemental approach. It makes everything seem so clear.
Could you explain to me how I was so virtuous when I was younger? I could eat a whole pizza, a tub of ice cream, etc, essentially "pigging out" and not gain a single pound that would stay on my body. I was somewhat active. It was not unheard of for me to put on more than 100 miles in a day on a bicycle, but I could eat FAR beyond that and not gain weight.
So I could eat as gluttonously as I desired and not gain weight. The lack of gaining weight made me virtuous using your criteria.
I am of the opinion that you should show some restraint in judging people regarding weight until you have hard evidence pointing towards your default judgements. It is not as simple as calories going in and calories burned.
That being said, I have seen a lot of "slobs" that are disgustingly huge because of lack of control. That does not mean that all weight gain is due to being a pig.
Flash became ubiquitous because web designers were begging the W3C to add scripting and multimedia capability to HTML. But the W3C dragged its feet.
While you are not wrong, there is more to it than this. Specifically, "designers" wanted pixel perfect renders of their vision rather than allowing the web browser decide how to do layout. It is one of the things that turned me off of designing web sites for those morons.
Right. You are under the impression that it is a fight for equality, not a fight for supremacy.
Here is real inequality:
Was out with my girlfriend. She wanted to pay for lunch. She paid for lunch. The person at the counter handed the change back to me. Why?
That is inequality.
An example of fake inequality for the cause of supremacy:
There are not many female software engineers; therefore, we need to create more. Spend millions of dollars training and recruiting females. Make laws forcing females into board level positions. There are many more.
How do I say that is supremacy and not equality? Because the females did not want to become software engineers.
Why didn't they want to?
Maybe their father taught them that it is not a female activity. The base cause could be because of gender discrimination but the solutions being proposed are just as bad and do not change the original conditions which caused a lack of female interest in being software engineers or executives.
You're splitting apart the Chinese government from its de facto role as the representative of China's citizens. That's all it is for any reasonable measure of global anything- a placeholder for the *people* of China. All you've done here is support per-capita measurements.
I could see you arguing this point in relation to America, but even then you would be wrong. Attempting to argue it for China is beyond laughable. China is as close to a dictatorship as you can get without actually being a dictatorship. The average Chinese person has absolutely no say in how the government decides to do things. You are utterly insane if you think you can put the responsibility for the pollution that China emits on the erstwhile "citizens" of China.
You're trying to join your hatred of the Chinese government with global emissions in a way that defies logic. You're doing this because you're either not very intelligent, or you're just manipulative and think you're really smart.
What makes you think I hate China? I am attempting to identify the power structures that can affect emissions. In China, as in America, it is not the citizens that have that power. It is the Executive that does.
You are welcome to question my intelligence, but I am not the one who started out all hostile and using poor metrics to shore up my argument. You are still failing to describe how the average Chinese or American citizen can make a difference. I specifically stated how a difference can be made: The fucking governments and the industries, none of which normal citizens have any control over.
That is a possibility. Many people have said it, some have proven it. You have not.
Actually tell us why America is the highest emitter of CO2 in the world apart from China?
Manufacturing. The same reason why China has so much CO2 output. America and China manufacture most of the shit that the rest of the world buys. When you buy an iPhone while living in Germany, the CO2 emitted to create that device was emitted in China and America.
Am I missing something here? Do I not understand how CO2 is "created"? I am open to learning.
The trend is pandering not to people who want inclusivity or equality. The modern trend is toward females being elevated to gender and race based supremacy.
Whoever is doing that shit needs to stop. If there is an all out war between males and females, it is obvious what the conclusion will be. In the meantime, they are making life miserable for millions, possibly billions of people on this planet.
I don't disagree that there were elements of religion in the book. Regardless of any literary merit, it was fun to read. I have not read it recently, but I am not the typically jaded and cynical adult, so I suspect I would still enjoy it. Many MANY books that I have read fall apart under close examination as an adult. I tend to let the delusions fly so that the story itself can be enjoyed.
Hm. I am not classically trained. I have no religious attachment to THE microkernel design. I am commenting off of ideas I had back in the 90s but were impracticable due to consumer devices having a single core unless you had lots of cash.
Describing it as more of a hypervisor is along the lines of what I was thinking; although having a full independent kernel on each core is a bit much I think. Perhaps a very limited kernel, without drivers but with limited memory management capabilities is in order.
Fun fact. I was once wandering around the football stadium at the UofA and saw a weird, almost hidden door. It had a sign on it that said Tree Ring society. I was an avid Lord of the Rings fan at the time and misread it as Three Ring Society and I was excited to meet some people who maybe spoke Elvish. A second look dispelled my excitement. *sigh* The naivety of youth. lol
Eh? The 3d portion of the Nvidia card will not be terribly useful if Nvidia stops supporting it. The card itself is not trashed. The non-gaming portion of the card will work fine.
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Or they'll just enjoy having a 5x lower murder rate than USA.
You are saying that having a lower chance of being murdered is worth any tyranny that can be visited upon you by a government.
Not all governments are benign. My favorite example is WW2 German government; although a better example is the Khmer Rouge of Cambodia.
To be fair, at this point in time, the Australian government is benign enough; but if you look at history, all systems of government become tyrannical, so essentially, you are trading freedom from murder at this point in time for the wholesale slaughter of your descendants at some point in the future.
You are welcome to make whatever choice you want, but I will call your choice a cowardly one. You want your safety NOW regardless of the safety of your descendants. I can understand your choice, but know that it is a cowardly choice.
I am too lazy to read how the person above you used "master" your emotions. If they really meant "suppress", then I agree what you said about it.
For myself, "mastering emotion" is more like mastering the skill of riding a horse. Your emotions are the horse and you are the rider. Emotions, relatively speaking, are much stronger than 'You' are. Engage in hand-to-hand combat at your own peril.
You can not make a horse submit. You can not make your emotions submit. You can suppress them or some other delaying tactic, but those tactics have prices too.
No. You ride your horse. Don't try to fight it and don't let it drag you down the dusty trail.
Before everyone goes yelling and screaming about how they have no use for this right now and that the eye can't tell a difference, I would like to say that 8K monitors are something that is desirable for anyone who has to sit in front of a computer all day.
I remember going from 320x240 to 640x480 to 1024x768 to 1900x1200 to 2560x1600, back down to 1366x768 to 1920x1080 to 2560x1440 and currently at 3840x2160.
Each increase in resolution brought a general increase in DPI. We have been hanging at around 93DPI for many years now. Functional, but relatively poor, optical scanners will scan at 300 DPI. Higher quality scanners will scan at 600 DPI.
What makes anyone think that hovering around 100 DPI for reading text on a screen is a good idea?
At 3840x2160, the jagged edges of fonts are almost gone. I can still see them but at such a low level that it is almost subconscious. A doubling of resolution should make that all go away PERMANENTLY.
Concerning "content". Honestly, as long as the story is good, it could be animated with stick figures and would still be extremely pleasurable. That being said, being able to discern details down to where you can not subconsciously apprehend detail anymore is very pleasurable. There will eventually be content out there for 8K. In the meantime, use them as the awesome computer monitors that they can be.
At least you are honest. I rarely drink alcohol and yet my social life is fine. That being said, I do not think that the behavior of social drinking should be called alcoholism.
That is just nonsense (and, actually, irresponsible). For one, ANYTHING you are doing that requires your peak senses and/or rationality will be negatively impacted by using Marijuana.
Bear with me for a moment because this is going to be very unpopular: Marijuana, in specific doses, can actually heighten mental capabilities for people with a particular configuration of brain chemistry. Just like amphetamines, in specific doses, can make people sleepy when they have a particular brain chemistry.
Obviously, on a large scale, amphetamines hype people up and marijuana slows people down. It is good to view with suspicion anyone who claims they are exempt from the average but it is poor form to deny absolutely that they are exempt from the average.
I would say that this analysis of yours has merit. Thank you for sharing it.
I agree. The only reason to look for habitable planets is to discover whether or not life has evolved elsewhere. As far as living off of planet Earth goes, it will be in a "spaceship" and it will likely travel from nebula to nebula picking up basic atoms and molecules for "fuel" or expansion of the spaceship. There is no reason at all to live on planets once we are fully space faring.
My only sadness is that I will not be participating in the space faring civilization. *sob*
I'm not saying this guy doesn't have some points, just that he doesn't seem to live in the real world.
I am reminded of a saying that goes something like this: In theory, theory and reality match. In reality, they don't.
If you want to be very afraid, research "fillers" and how they do not need to be labelled since they supposedly have a "neutral" effect.
LOL. If the human body were a simply combustion chamber, like in your car's engine, I would agree with your simplistic view. Storing/burning fat is not as simple as "too many calories, store as fat, too few calories, burn fat.", if it were, we could look at everyone who is fat and morally shame them without worrying about whether or not we are being unfair.
My judgements are based on physical laws, you might as well be arguing with me about gravity here
Funny that you should mention that. :)
Gravity is NOT a fundamental force as you and most people tend to believe. It is the result of acceleration due to time differentials. Go ahead and dismiss this without further thought as I am sure you will; however, you should probably answer this before you do if you want to sleep without any nagging doubts in your mind:
Time flows more slowly the closer to a mass you get. For example, GPS satellites orbiting the Earth need to account for this aspect of Relativity http://www.astronomy.ohio-stat... , about 3/4 of the way down for the relevant information. What would you expect to see happen if time was flowing at different speeds but you were sitting still? For myself, and apparently I may be alone in this, I would expect to feel an acceleration since I can't satisfy both time references by staying still.
All weight gain is certainly not due to being a pig. Pigs actually know when to stop
Again with the judgemental attitude. Relax bro. Life is not that serious. We all leave this place sooner or later. Try to make it more fun since it is all ephemeral. :)
Facebook isn't inciting anything. It is people using Facebook that incite things.
This seems like another version of the 'gun' debate where Facebook is the gun.
I am sitting here smiling. I did not participate in the cryptocurrency craze. I knew there was money to be made, or lost, but making money with cryptocurrency (not mining, but investing) felt unethical to me, so I didn't participate.
I am smiling at the karmic experience going on here. Many who were "investing" were trying to get something for nothing.
Cute. I like your judgemental approach. It makes everything seem so clear.
Could you explain to me how I was so virtuous when I was younger? I could eat a whole pizza, a tub of ice cream, etc, essentially "pigging out" and not gain a single pound that would stay on my body. I was somewhat active. It was not unheard of for me to put on more than 100 miles in a day on a bicycle, but I could eat FAR beyond that and not gain weight.
So I could eat as gluttonously as I desired and not gain weight. The lack of gaining weight made me virtuous using your criteria.
I am of the opinion that you should show some restraint in judging people regarding weight until you have hard evidence pointing towards your default judgements. It is not as simple as calories going in and calories burned.
That being said, I have seen a lot of "slobs" that are disgustingly huge because of lack of control. That does not mean that all weight gain is due to being a pig.
Flash became ubiquitous because web designers were begging the W3C to add scripting and multimedia capability to HTML. But the W3C dragged its feet.
While you are not wrong, there is more to it than this. Specifically, "designers" wanted pixel perfect renders of their vision rather than allowing the web browser decide how to do layout. It is one of the things that turned me off of designing web sites for those morons.
Very cool. It sounds like we are on the same page here.
Right. You are under the impression that it is a fight for equality, not a fight for supremacy.
Here is real inequality:
Was out with my girlfriend. She wanted to pay for lunch. She paid for lunch. The person at the counter handed the change back to me. Why?
That is inequality.
An example of fake inequality for the cause of supremacy:
There are not many female software engineers; therefore, we need to create more. Spend millions of dollars training and recruiting females. Make laws forcing females into board level positions. There are many more.
How do I say that is supremacy and not equality? Because the females did not want to become software engineers.
Why didn't they want to?
Maybe their father taught them that it is not a female activity. The base cause could be because of gender discrimination but the solutions being proposed are just as bad and do not change the original conditions which caused a lack of female interest in being software engineers or executives.
You're splitting apart the Chinese government from its de facto role as the representative of China's citizens. That's all it is for any reasonable measure of global anything- a placeholder for the *people* of China. All you've done here is support per-capita measurements.
I could see you arguing this point in relation to America, but even then you would be wrong. Attempting to argue it for China is beyond laughable. China is as close to a dictatorship as you can get without actually being a dictatorship. The average Chinese person has absolutely no say in how the government decides to do things. You are utterly insane if you think you can put the responsibility for the pollution that China emits on the erstwhile "citizens" of China.
You're trying to join your hatred of the Chinese government with global emissions in a way that defies logic. You're doing this because you're either not very intelligent, or you're just manipulative and think you're really smart.
What makes you think I hate China? I am attempting to identify the power structures that can affect emissions. In China, as in America, it is not the citizens that have that power. It is the Executive that does.
You are welcome to question my intelligence, but I am not the one who started out all hostile and using poor metrics to shore up my argument. You are still failing to describe how the average Chinese or American citizen can make a difference. I specifically stated how a difference can be made: The fucking governments and the industries, none of which normal citizens have any control over.
Your turn. :)
You really are one ignorant fool aren't you.
That is a possibility. Many people have said it, some have proven it. You have not.
Actually tell us why America is the highest emitter of CO2 in the world apart from China?
Manufacturing. The same reason why China has so much CO2 output. America and China manufacture most of the shit that the rest of the world buys. When you buy an iPhone while living in Germany, the CO2 emitted to create that device was emitted in China and America.
Am I missing something here? Do I not understand how CO2 is "created"? I am open to learning.
The trend is pandering not to people who want inclusivity or equality. The modern trend is toward females being elevated to gender and race based supremacy.
Whoever is doing that shit needs to stop. If there is an all out war between males and females, it is obvious what the conclusion will be. In the meantime, they are making life miserable for millions, possibly billions of people on this planet.
Creating a feminist agenda out of whole cloth from a story that has no side at all in the supposed Gender War that people keep trying to sustain.
I don't disagree that there were elements of religion in the book. Regardless of any literary merit, it was fun to read. I have not read it recently, but I am not the typically jaded and cynical adult, so I suspect I would still enjoy it. Many MANY books that I have read fall apart under close examination as an adult. I tend to let the delusions fly so that the story itself can be enjoyed.
Hm. I am not classically trained. I have no religious attachment to THE microkernel design. I am commenting off of ideas I had back in the 90s but were impracticable due to consumer devices having a single core unless you had lots of cash.
Describing it as more of a hypervisor is along the lines of what I was thinking; although having a full independent kernel on each core is a bit much I think. Perhaps a very limited kernel, without drivers but with limited memory management capabilities is in order.
I like your Combos example. :)
Fun fact. I was once wandering around the football stadium at the UofA and saw a weird, almost hidden door. It had a sign on it that said Tree Ring society. I was an avid Lord of the Rings fan at the time and misread it as Three Ring Society and I was excited to meet some people who maybe spoke Elvish. A second look dispelled my excitement. *sigh* The naivety of youth. lol
Eh? There is a world outside of America? Amazing. I, and most Americans, were pretty sure that we were the center of the universe. Who knew? ;)
Eh? The 3d portion of the Nvidia card will not be terribly useful if Nvidia stops supporting it. The card itself is not trashed. The non-gaming portion of the card will work fine.