One of my desktops is a Phenom triple-core I built in 2009. It's kinda underpowered for newer Windows versions so I still have XP (service pack 3) running on it.
It runs like a champ by the way, still quite snappy. I used to run Google Chrome on it, but some time last year it started spamming me with "Upgrade your windows, Chrome no longer blah blah" message so I uninstalled Chrome and put Firefox on it. Runs great, happy with the setup.
You want to preserve democratic freedoms by censoring fake news? Wouldn't that be like... taking away the most important democratic freedom of them all, free speech?
Because sooner or later, the entity tasked with determining what's fake and what's not could fall into people currently not on your side.
Solution to fake news is to have people ignore obviously stupid shit. The more intelligent ones already do so. If stupid people wanna keep reading stupid shit, well then by golly that's the god-given right.
So odds are you just wake up a social pariah, with no skills, in an alien social order with no friends and family.
Are you talking about you, or the girl? The girl obviously wants to live, even with complete strangers of the future. If you don't want to live in the future, be my guest. But don't assume everyone thinks the same as you.
I mean, I think the whole thing is stupid, but only because I know it will never work (resurrecting a dead frozen body in which every cell had burst etc). But if some magical tech came out that guaranteed cryo freeze survival, I might actually volunteer myself to be frozen just so I can live in the future and finally see flying cars.
I agree with you to an extent. But UBI and open borders do not mix well. At all.
The one country on earth currently rich enough and organizationally sane enough to make a success of UBI, Switzerland, just voted it down... even though majority of the people polled agreed with the concept. Reason for voting no? They felt that UBI would make Switzerland a magnet for immigrants from poorer countries.
workers forced into this type of a situation by management would say "F___ you" and walk out. Maybe get a job in manufacturing.
Except we don't have a sane job market, manufacturing jobs have been decimated in the name of profit (management calls it "globalism" and "free trade"). Other manual jobs are equally hard to come by, due to the large scale importation of low-cost laborers (management calls it "open borders" and "dreamers").
Let's be honest here, sales associates at Office Depot or Wells Fargo aren't exactly MIT material. They can't retrain and become doctors or aerospace engineers. Manufacturing used to be one place where non-rocket scientists could go and make a decent living, and now that''s gone.
Stranger in a Strange Land is well written, worth reading, but ultimately a strawman to support a bunch of cultural values that turned out to be worthless and not sustainable, and to me because he had to create such an extreme earth-based society to contrast and define his own cultural beliefs
Exactly my point. You were unable to enjoy it because of moral/philosophical objections.
For me it helped that I had read other books by Heinlein before I got to Stranger in a Strange Land, so I was already familiar with his political leanings and his views on life. Believe me, Heinlein is very far from a 60's counter-culture hippie. Read Starship Troopers if you want an insight into his political views.
While reading "Stranger", I was not threatened by its moral implications and I did not at any point believe that this was a realistic scenario or something that the author wanted to impose on society. So I was able to suspend disbelief and just go along for the strange (yet wonderful) ride.
makes ultimately a weak piece of literature as it's fundamental argument isn't based in anything real
I would agree that "Stranger" is not great literature as most people define it. However it is great *science fiction*. It's entertaining, highly original, and a very interesting exploration of "what if?"
because you mentally turned yourself off after seeing moral/philosophical points that you disagree with. It's okay, this happens.
I know some people who are quite intelligent and big SF fans who never got why Dune is so popular. Precisely for the same reason.
Personally, I hated the movie District 9. I thought it was very shallow, just a not-so-subtle vehicle for the writer/director to push his leftist views. Super intelligent alien beings that have interstellar spaceships and artificial gravity, and yet act like idiots? Really? Aside from their high-tech stuff, their behavior is exactly like that of prison inmates with an IQ of around 80. Ruins the story for me, the whole time I was watching it I was thinking, "Why don't these aliens just do _____?"
However in retrospect, it is possible that District 9 is not entirely worthless, it may contain some good parts that I overlooked due to my disagreement with the parts that were stupid.
Stranger in a Strange Land on the other hand is a masterpiece -- a towering achievement that stands out even among the greats of science fiction -- because it's so original.
The association seeks immigration reform to support more high-skilled workers staying in the United States.
Google and Facebook want more H1B visas, not a big surprise.
What's surprising is that they have the gall to ask Trump to give it to them, after donating millions to Clinton. Weren't Eric Schmidt and Sheryl Sandberg basically a part of the Clinton campaign?
A president can pardon someone, even if currently no charges have been filed. For example, Ford pardoned Nixon for any and all actions he undertook as President.
Trump can easily pardon Assange from any prosecution by the U.S. gov't for all actions committed by Assange between 1972 to 2016.
That would no effect on whatever Sweden wants Assange for. However keep in mind that Assange only went into hiding at Ecuadorian embassy because he feared Sweden would extradite him to the USA and that he'd end up being tortured at Guantanamo. With a Trump pardon, Assange could (and should) go to Sweden to defend himself against Swedish charges. I hear Swedish prisons are actually really decent places, as far as prisons go. And their justice system pretty fair.
Isn't that racist? There's another perfectly good Democratic-leaning country next door, it's called Mexico, but I haven't heard any Hollywood celebrities saying they're moving there. Only Canada.
Dead wrong. The richest of the rich... Google founders, Facebook founders, Soros, Buffet, who were they all pulling really really hard for? It was Clinton, who promised them more HB-1 visas and unlimited offshoring. Wall Street? Was there a spectacular rally when Trump won? No, stock market crashed. And it's not the 99% who own large shares, it's the 1%.
Bernie and Trump are both populists. They stand for the little guy (or at least they *say* they do). Clinton and Bush don't even pretend they do, they are proudly in the pocket of banks and corporations and the defense industry.
Who is going to take advantage of Trump and Congress at each other's throats resulting in the weakest Presidency since the revolution?
Republicans actually won both Senate and the House tonight. Paul Ryan seems to be coming around to working with President Trump. We will see what happens, but "at each others' throats" I think is a bit premature to call at this point.
At any rate the CNN/NY Times/MSNBC prediction that Trump would drag down congressional Republicans and cause them to lose control turned out to be.... completely wrong.
So it was the Republicans who set up Clinton Foundation and traded favors and money like candy?
MSNBC reaction to the latest Wikileaks Clinton Foundation leak. (for those not familiar with American news outlets; MSNBC is a left-leaning organization and normally a cheerleader for Democrats)
Now, how many times has she been convicted?
Lack of conviction can mean two things. 1) person is innocent, or 2) person is guilty but the accusers couldn't come up with enough evidence and/or the person is very good at dodging the legal system (perhaps because they're a trained lawyer)
It's pretty fucking clear by now that Clinton belongs in category 2)
whiny asshats that don't like Hillary because she's a woman
No. I would've supported a President Jill Stein. I believe she'd be a better choice than Donald Trump.
I cannot support Hillary because she is corrupt. The depth of her corruption is breathtaking and her blatant disregard for the rule of law is a danger to the republic.
What would it actually cost to produce a MacBook in the USA? My guess is that it'll be more expensive, but not by a factor 4. And in case of iPhones, which are sold at 3x the cost of manufacturing, I bet they could sell them at only a slightly higher price if they *gasp* would accept a lower markup.
Accepting a lower markup (meaning, less profits) just for the "Made in USA" sticker is dumb. No sane businessman would do it.
I am not devoid of patriotism or empathy for domestic workers. But if I were making a product in China and decided to bring it back to USA, i would simply raise the price and pass the increased cost to the customer, keeping my profit margin the same. Of course this only works if your product is still desirable at that price and the cost difference isn't huge.
I remember an article a few years back from a business site (Bloomberg or Forbes or some such). They did an analysis of the iPhone 5 (I think) and how much more it would cost to make it in USA while keeping the same margins. It was something like $30 to $55 per phone. So the iPhone which was selling for $700 at the time would cost $730 to $755 if made in USA.
Flip the situation around and see what your response is. Would you be okay with it if Facebook and Google were pushing hard for a (R) candidate in a close election?
And by the way it could very easily have turned out this way. If Bernie won the Dem nomination, and Jeb won the Repub side, the mantle of populism (anti free trade, anti H1B visa, protecting domestic workers) would've been taken up by the Democrats. Globalism, TPP, pro Wall Street/corporate welfare would've been the Republican platform under Bush.
Depends on what you mean by being attacked. If the bad guy is pointing a gun at your head already then yeah it's too late. But usually you have some time to react in a home invasion robbery, if your house is not completely insecure.
If its not too late, you should run, or hide behind something first.
What, run where? You're upstairs in your bedroom, and you hear the sound of breaking glass downstairs and someone forcing the patio door open. You run? Jump out the window? Leave the kids in their bedroom and just take off running?
If you hear gun shots in the distance and go investigate with your gun out
I personally don't know anyone who is so mentally retarded that they would do that. If you hear gunshots in the distance, as in not on or near your house, you absolutely do not run out into the street looking to "investigate". Leave that to the cops. You lock your doors and windows, and if you have a gun you get it ready just in case. In any event you dial 911.
If its for protecting your house, a finger print reader is better than locking up your guns from children if you lack the time to unlock them in an emergency.
My iphone has one of the best fingerprint readers on the market, according to smartphone reviews. And it's not even close to being reliable enough. It's pretty much useless when my hands are sweaty. And in a life and death situation there's a pretty good chance my hands are gonna start sweating.
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XP (all versions) are supported until 2018. After that I may retire the machine from internet duty and relegate it to a file server or something.
One of my desktops is a Phenom triple-core I built in 2009. It's kinda underpowered for newer Windows versions so I still have XP (service pack 3) running on it.
It runs like a champ by the way, still quite snappy. I used to run Google Chrome on it, but some time last year it started spamming me with "Upgrade your windows, Chrome no longer blah blah" message so I uninstalled Chrome and put Firefox on it. Runs great, happy with the setup.
hmm
*plugs usb killer into airliner USB charging port*
*dies*
You want to preserve democratic freedoms by censoring fake news? Wouldn't that be like... taking away the most important democratic freedom of them all, free speech?
Because sooner or later, the entity tasked with determining what's fake and what's not could fall into people currently not on your side.
Solution to fake news is to have people ignore obviously stupid shit. The more intelligent ones already do so. If stupid people wanna keep reading stupid shit, well then by golly that's the god-given right.
So odds are you just wake up a social pariah, with no skills, in an alien social order with no friends and family.
Are you talking about you, or the girl? The girl obviously wants to live, even with complete strangers of the future. If you don't want to live in the future, be my guest. But don't assume everyone thinks the same as you.
I mean, I think the whole thing is stupid, but only because I know it will never work (resurrecting a dead frozen body in which every cell had burst etc). But if some magical tech came out that guaranteed cryo freeze survival, I might actually volunteer myself to be frozen just so I can live in the future and finally see flying cars.
Please... Apple will need all the money it can get when President Trump slaps a $150 tariff on all smartphones imported into the U.S.
I agree with you to an extent. But UBI and open borders do not mix well. At all.
The one country on earth currently rich enough and organizationally sane enough to make a success of UBI, Switzerland, just voted it down... even though majority of the people polled agreed with the concept. Reason for voting no? They felt that UBI would make Switzerland a magnet for immigrants from poorer countries.
workers forced into this type of a situation by management would say "F___ you" and walk out. Maybe get a job in manufacturing.
Except we don't have a sane job market, manufacturing jobs have been decimated in the name of profit (management calls it "globalism" and "free trade"). Other manual jobs are equally hard to come by, due to the large scale importation of low-cost laborers (management calls it "open borders" and "dreamers").
Let's be honest here, sales associates at Office Depot or Wells Fargo aren't exactly MIT material. They can't retrain and become doctors or aerospace engineers. Manufacturing used to be one place where non-rocket scientists could go and make a decent living, and now that''s gone.
Stranger in a Strange Land is well written, worth reading, but ultimately a strawman to support a bunch of cultural values that turned out to be worthless and not sustainable, and to me because he had to create such an extreme earth-based society to contrast and define his own cultural beliefs
Exactly my point. You were unable to enjoy it because of moral/philosophical objections.
For me it helped that I had read other books by Heinlein before I got to Stranger in a Strange Land, so I was already familiar with his political leanings and his views on life. Believe me, Heinlein is very far from a 60's counter-culture hippie. Read Starship Troopers if you want an insight into his political views.
While reading "Stranger", I was not threatened by its moral implications and I did not at any point believe that this was a realistic scenario or something that the author wanted to impose on society. So I was able to suspend disbelief and just go along for the strange (yet wonderful) ride.
makes ultimately a weak piece of literature as it's fundamental argument isn't based in anything real
I would agree that "Stranger" is not great literature as most people define it. However it is great *science fiction*. It's entertaining, highly original, and a very interesting exploration of "what if?"
because you mentally turned yourself off after seeing moral/philosophical points that you disagree with. It's okay, this happens.
I know some people who are quite intelligent and big SF fans who never got why Dune is so popular. Precisely for the same reason.
Personally, I hated the movie District 9. I thought it was very shallow, just a not-so-subtle vehicle for the writer/director to push his leftist views. Super intelligent alien beings that have interstellar spaceships and artificial gravity, and yet act like idiots? Really? Aside from their high-tech stuff, their behavior is exactly like that of prison inmates with an IQ of around 80. Ruins the story for me, the whole time I was watching it I was thinking, "Why don't these aliens just do _____?"
However in retrospect, it is possible that District 9 is not entirely worthless, it may contain some good parts that I overlooked due to my disagreement with the parts that were stupid.
Stranger in a Strange Land on the other hand is a masterpiece -- a towering achievement that stands out even among the greats of science fiction -- because it's so original.
The association seeks immigration reform to support more high-skilled workers staying in the United States.
Google and Facebook want more H1B visas, not a big surprise.
What's surprising is that they have the gall to ask Trump to give it to them, after donating millions to Clinton. Weren't Eric Schmidt and Sheryl Sandberg basically a part of the Clinton campaign?
A president can pardon someone, even if currently no charges have been filed. For example, Ford pardoned Nixon for any and all actions he undertook as President.
Trump can easily pardon Assange from any prosecution by the U.S. gov't for all actions committed by Assange between 1972 to 2016.
That would no effect on whatever Sweden wants Assange for. However keep in mind that Assange only went into hiding at Ecuadorian embassy because he feared Sweden would extradite him to the USA and that he'd end up being tortured at Guantanamo. With a Trump pardon, Assange could (and should) go to Sweden to defend himself against Swedish charges. I hear Swedish prisons are actually really decent places, as far as prisons go. And their justice system pretty fair.
Have those things been able to get an exception from helmets laws? They are classified as motorcycles because they have less than 4 wheels.
They're working on it, state-by-state. Helmet laws vary from state to state and they have received exemption in some of them.
Right on. And don't forget Elio motors, also to be made in the USA.
I don't have the money to buy a Tesla but I will sure be snapping up an Elio when it goes on sale to the general public.
Isn't that racist? There's another perfectly good Democratic-leaning country next door, it's called Mexico, but I haven't heard any Hollywood celebrities saying they're moving there. Only Canada.
the 1% are fine with Trump
Dead wrong. The richest of the rich... Google founders, Facebook founders, Soros, Buffet, who were they all pulling really really hard for? It was Clinton, who promised them more HB-1 visas and unlimited offshoring. Wall Street? Was there a spectacular rally when Trump won? No, stock market crashed. And it's not the 99% who own large shares, it's the 1%.
Bernie and Trump are both populists. They stand for the little guy (or at least they *say* they do). Clinton and Bush don't even pretend they do, they are proudly in the pocket of banks and corporations and the defense industry.
Who is going to take advantage of Trump and Congress at each other's throats resulting in the weakest Presidency since the revolution?
Republicans actually won both Senate and the House tonight. Paul Ryan seems to be coming around to working with President Trump. We will see what happens, but "at each others' throats" I think is a bit premature to call at this point.
At any rate the CNN/NY Times/MSNBC prediction that Trump would drag down congressional Republicans and cause them to lose control turned out to be.... completely wrong.
So it was the Republicans who set up Clinton Foundation and traded favors and money like candy?
MSNBC reaction to the latest Wikileaks Clinton Foundation leak. (for those not familiar with American news outlets; MSNBC is a left-leaning organization and normally a cheerleader for Democrats)
Now, how many times has she been convicted?
Lack of conviction can mean two things. 1) person is innocent, or 2) person is guilty but the accusers couldn't come up with enough evidence and/or the person is very good at dodging the legal system (perhaps because they're a trained lawyer)
It's pretty fucking clear by now that Clinton belongs in category 2)
whiny asshats that don't like Hillary because she's a woman
No. I would've supported a President Jill Stein. I believe she'd be a better choice than Donald Trump.
I cannot support Hillary because she is corrupt. The depth of her corruption is breathtaking and her blatant disregard for the rule of law is a danger to the republic.
What would it actually cost to produce a MacBook in the USA? My guess is that it'll be more expensive, but not by a factor 4. And in case of iPhones, which are sold at 3x the cost of manufacturing, I bet they could sell them at only a slightly higher price if they *gasp* would accept a lower markup.
Accepting a lower markup (meaning, less profits) just for the "Made in USA" sticker is dumb. No sane businessman would do it.
I am not devoid of patriotism or empathy for domestic workers. But if I were making a product in China and decided to bring it back to USA, i would simply raise the price and pass the increased cost to the customer, keeping my profit margin the same. Of course this only works if your product is still desirable at that price and the cost difference isn't huge.
I remember an article a few years back from a business site (Bloomberg or Forbes or some such). They did an analysis of the iPhone 5 (I think) and how much more it would cost to make it in USA while keeping the same margins. It was something like $30 to $55 per phone. So the iPhone which was selling for $700 at the time would cost $730 to $755 if made in USA.
Flip the situation around and see what your response is. Would you be okay with it if Facebook and Google were pushing hard for a (R) candidate in a close election?
And by the way it could very easily have turned out this way. If Bernie won the Dem nomination, and Jeb won the Repub side, the mantle of populism (anti free trade, anti H1B visa, protecting domestic workers) would've been taken up by the Democrats. Globalism, TPP, pro Wall Street/corporate welfare would've been the Republican platform under Bush.
If you are being attacked, its too late.
Depends on what you mean by being attacked. If the bad guy is pointing a gun at your head already then yeah it's too late. But usually you have some time to react in a home invasion robbery, if your house is not completely insecure.
If its not too late, you should run, or hide behind something first.
What, run where? You're upstairs in your bedroom, and you hear the sound of breaking glass downstairs and someone forcing the patio door open. You run? Jump out the window? Leave the kids in their bedroom and just take off running?
If you hear gun shots in the distance and go investigate with your gun out
I personally don't know anyone who is so mentally retarded that they would do that. If you hear gunshots in the distance, as in not on or near your house, you absolutely do not run out into the street looking to "investigate". Leave that to the cops. You lock your doors and windows, and if you have a gun you get it ready just in case. In any event you dial 911.
If its for protecting your house, a finger print reader is better than locking up your guns from children if you lack the time to unlock them in an emergency.
My iphone has one of the best fingerprint readers on the market, according to smartphone reviews. And it's not even close to being reliable enough. It's pretty much useless when my hands are sweaty. And in a life and death situation there's a pretty good chance my hands are gonna start sweating.