Of all that crap, fsdn.com is the only one that's not strictly harmful. These days, "deny by default" is not only a security measure, it also means less work telling ads from non-ads.
A sky fairy that does things based on what you quietly mumble: belief without any basis. Magic multiple genders: also belief without any basis.
So where exactly did those genders come from and what exactly they do?
It's just like communism, which loudly claimed they're absolutely not a religion, despite having scripture, prophets, clergy, rituals, portraits of saints everywhere, processions, promise of (earthly) paradise, etc.
All that "postmodern" gobbledygook is not science -- if a gender studies joke paper with an intentionally ridiculous overload of buzzwords was highly praised by a bunch of reviewers in the field, this means "real" papers are indistinguishable from bullshit. Ergo, the field is bullshit.
To try to refute a theory it needs to be at least consistent. All I see is a pile of buzzwords. So what do you expect me to refute?
As for the article you linked to, please point me where it claims a third gender exists. I've read that article, and I see the author describing why some people may feel like a member of the opposite gender, and some arguments why mutilating the body to match the perceived gender is not a good idea. The article does appear to include some ideology, but that's quite clearly separable from the meat, and the meat to my naive understanding seems plausible.
I did not say their methods work well. They are deep in love in data mining: if startups which submit their papers typeset in Calibri have statistically better results than those typeset in Cambria, the VCs will discriminate against the latter. They don't try to find causation, they religiously follow any correlation that looks like it'd let them pick more profitable places to put their money into.
But there's no malice here. The VCs are not sexist, they merely noticed a statistical difference and rushed for it.
(And as you can find elsewhere in the comments, the statistical analysis of what VCs did was likewise flawed.)
Increasing levels of wrongness in pseudoscience: * astrology: (most variants) a well-formed testable theory * creationism: an internally consistent assertion, untestable * gender studies: see "The Conceptual Penis as a Social Construct"
Well, I'm using an OS whose entire source has been leaked in 1991, and hasn't seen a full rewrite since. Now that one must be compromised to hell and back...
There's plenty bad you can say about Vulture Capital companies, but not that they're bad about correlating past chances for a startup to become profitable with various pieces of data about those startups, especially data that is easy to measure.
If they noticed that teams that include women are statistically non-negligibly less likely to succeed, they will use that knowledge. They don't care that you have a poontang instead of a wang, they care about what has historically been proven to give better chances of profit.
If sacrificial goats become a requirement for proper operation, I'm going to pivot to a career in landscaping.
It might be a complex science, but it is a science. Once you figure the correct type of dagger (both blade and handle), the number and color of required candles, you should be set.
Actually, Russia did prepare well in case of a German invasion, and built not one but two lines of fortifications. Then, Stalin decided to blow up these fortifications when preparing an attack.
Barbarossa was not a planned backstab but a desperate pre-emptive strike. In most places Germans entered over barbed wire cleared by Russians just a week if not the day before. Barbarossa succeeded (temporarily) only because of extreme incompetence of Russian leadership -- routinely purging anyone with a shred of skill isn't conductive to growing an efficient cadre. There were no contingency plans at all, upon hearing the news Stalin did refuse to hear anyone for a week, the top brass did not dare to do anything without Stalin's approval, making the army collapse. Ridiculous Russian tactics, making them lose 10:1 in terms of manpower even when orders did come in, weren't helpful either.
Nope, with massive costs we got down to 12k meters and that was where our best drilling technology stopped to work. It might be plausible to get to 15k or so but not much deeper.
Further down, you'd need to invent a whole new way of drilling.
No, it's obvious bias. All available information point to him being a Democrat, there's not a single piece that says otherwise. Thus, it's dishonest to say "mixed".
If your wife tells me you drove off to work an hour ago, and your commute is half an hour, it is reasonable to assume you actually are at work. You could have an accident, or went visit a lover, but in absence of further information, a valid simple answer is "at work" or at most "should be at work", not "no idea".
In this case, it's a shit little package that requires no real maintenance, so forking is an option.
But what would you say about Firefox dropping sound support (PulseAudio might work on some machines, but not on any I own), degrading the UI to TabsOnTop then Australis, dropping most useful extensions (in FF 57), and so on? Do you, or any small team, have the resources to keep maintaining Firefox? PaleMoon is a proof it's not as easy as it sounds.
Likewise, when OpenOffice went apeshit, it was saved only by a bunch of companies funding LibreOffice.
Or, despite MATE being so much better than GNOME, it's the latter that's the default in most distributions.
Please read the second discussion I linked to. It's not about a random person freeloading on that Bieber video, it's about putting massive barriers to creating new works and to transmitting culture.
Being content that you can live, eat and copulate is what animals do. It's important, yeah, but for me "humanity" means things what make us different from non-human animals, and most of that difference can be called "culture". Copyright is the current biggest obstacle to creation and transmission of culture, ergo, it is a crime against humanity.
Murdering a person destroys the animal part. Burning a book destroys the cultural part. Both parts matter. And while a single human is (usually) worth more than a single book, it's almost never a single book that gets burned.
You mean the same Russia that started that war? The same Russia that in 1944 shot at American planes and supported Germans, just so they have a slightly stronger propaganda stance if the Warsaw Uprising fails?
Nope, Wine itself is enough, at least on installations which I looked at.
In the other hand, the exe thumbnailer is not an official Gnome project but comes from Ubuntu -- so with all of Gnome's insanities, this one is not their fault.
Using an exponential scale gives you an increased range with the same number of bits, varying resolution in parts of the range (ie, a fixed amount of meaningful digits rather than a fixed absolute accuracy).. It's easy to do so in a way that can represent any conceivable real input. And if even that is not enough, you can use bignums.
Slowwwww down thar, jack. I'm only allowing facebook crap to load on facebook, and I didn't say otherwise. I perhaps wasn't clear, but making assumptions is half-cocked.
And why those "security researchers" won't teach users about the dangers of DRM? That pirated content are harmless data-only files, while "legal" crap requires installing backdoor malware.
May I ask why? Why in the blazes a reasonable person would ever allow anything Facebook to load (assuming you're not paid for pushing crap there)?
If you have a family member who insists on still using Facebook, most of the blockers can be configured to allow it through on a single site (like facebook.com directly), I don't have any experience there though (thanks Marduk!). Letting it crap on, track you on, and, as you say, lock your setup on, random third-party sites, is preposterous.
These names are not predictable for computers either. These random numbers get rerolled on major kernel upgrades (quite rarely but enough in the ong run), when kernel config changes, when you attach a new piece of hardware, for no reason whatsoever, or in some cases even every single boot.
But then we have your sig, don't we. Just shows how out of touch with reality you really are...
Lemme paste one of my prior comments. The rest of discussion is worth reading, too:
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Many folks call copyright (rather than copyright violations) "theft", but I'd go farther. Being a form of censorship, it is a crime against humanity.
A mere war against lives is limited in scope. With free dissemination of ideas, oppressive regimes don't last long -- note how the first thing they try is blocking communication among protesters and jailing of authors/journalists/etc who dare to voice something that opposes the regime in question. War on culture has effects that last forever. Books burned don't come back.
Imagine a guy in, say, 400BC, who took a spray^H^H^H^H^Hbucket of paint and wrote something on a wall. Like everyone else born during the next 2300 years, his life is gone. Yet a part of him lives on. Culture has the potential to last forever.
Copyright, by massively hampering culture, is the very worst thing we have.
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Of all that crap, fsdn.com is the only one that's not strictly harmful. These days, "deny by default" is not only a security measure, it also means less work telling ads from non-ads.
A sky fairy that does things based on what you quietly mumble: belief without any basis. Magic multiple genders: also belief without any basis.
So where exactly did those genders come from and what exactly they do?
It's just like communism, which loudly claimed they're absolutely not a religion, despite having scripture, prophets, clergy, rituals, portraits of saints everywhere, processions, promise of (earthly) paradise, etc.
All that "postmodern" gobbledygook is not science -- if a gender studies joke paper with an intentionally ridiculous overload of buzzwords was highly praised by a bunch of reviewers in the field, this means "real" papers are indistinguishable from bullshit. Ergo, the field is bullshit.
To try to refute a theory it needs to be at least consistent. All I see is a pile of buzzwords. So what do you expect me to refute?
As for the article you linked to, please point me where it claims a third gender exists. I've read that article, and I see the author describing why some people may feel like a member of the opposite gender, and some arguments why mutilating the body to match the perceived gender is not a good idea. The article does appear to include some ideology, but that's quite clearly separable from the meat, and the meat to my naive understanding seems plausible.
I did not say their methods work well. They are deep in love in data mining: if startups which submit their papers typeset in Calibri have statistically better results than those typeset in Cambria, the VCs will discriminate against the latter. They don't try to find causation, they religiously follow any correlation that looks like it'd let them pick more profitable places to put their money into.
But there's no malice here. The VCs are not sexist, they merely noticed a statistical difference and rushed for it.
(And as you can find elsewhere in the comments, the statistical analysis of what VCs did was likewise flawed.)
Increasing levels of wrongness in pseudoscience:
* astrology: (most variants) a well-formed testable theory
* creationism: an internally consistent assertion, untestable
* gender studies: see "The Conceptual Penis as a Social Construct"
In our universe, religion supersedes facts.
A while ago, you couldn't say the Earth rotates around the Sun. Today, dare to say humans have exactly two genders, etc.
Well, I'm using an OS whose entire source has been leaked in 1991, and hasn't seen a full rewrite since. Now that one must be compromised to hell and back...
There's plenty bad you can say about Vulture Capital companies, but not that they're bad about correlating past chances for a startup to become profitable with various pieces of data about those startups, especially data that is easy to measure.
If they noticed that teams that include women are statistically non-negligibly less likely to succeed, they will use that knowledge. They don't care that you have a poontang instead of a wang, they care about what has historically been proven to give better chances of profit.
If sacrificial goats become a requirement for proper operation, I'm going to pivot to a career in landscaping.
It might be a complex science, but it is a science. Once you figure the correct type of dagger (both blade and handle), the number and color of required candles, you should be set.
Actually, Russia did prepare well in case of a German invasion, and built not one but two lines of fortifications. Then, Stalin decided to blow up these fortifications when preparing an attack.
Barbarossa was not a planned backstab but a desperate pre-emptive strike. In most places Germans entered over barbed wire cleared by Russians just a week if not the day before. Barbarossa succeeded (temporarily) only because of extreme incompetence of Russian leadership -- routinely purging anyone with a shred of skill isn't conductive to growing an efficient cadre. There were no contingency plans at all, upon hearing the news Stalin did refuse to hear anyone for a week, the top brass did not dare to do anything without Stalin's approval, making the army collapse. Ridiculous Russian tactics, making them lose 10:1 in terms of manpower even when orders did come in, weren't helpful either.
They buried the facts deep into the article, downplaying them in the headline. And the headline is the only piece most people see.
Nope, with massive costs we got down to 12k meters and that was where our best drilling technology stopped to work. It might be plausible to get to 15k or so but not much deeper.
Further down, you'd need to invent a whole new way of drilling.
No, it's obvious bias. All available information point to him being a Democrat, there's not a single piece that says otherwise. Thus, it's dishonest to say "mixed".
If your wife tells me you drove off to work an hour ago, and your commute is half an hour, it is reasonable to assume you actually are at work. You could have an accident, or went visit a lover, but in absence of further information, a valid simple answer is "at work" or at most "should be at work", not "no idea".
In this case, it's a shit little package that requires no real maintenance, so forking is an option.
But what would you say about Firefox dropping sound support (PulseAudio might work on some machines, but not on any I own), degrading the UI to TabsOnTop then Australis, dropping most useful extensions (in FF 57), and so on? Do you, or any small team, have the resources to keep maintaining Firefox? PaleMoon is a proof it's not as easy as it sounds.
Likewise, when OpenOffice went apeshit, it was saved only by a bunch of companies funding LibreOffice.
Or, despite MATE being so much better than GNOME, it's the latter that's the default in most distributions.
"Just fork it" isn't that easy.
Please read the second discussion I linked to. It's not about a random person freeloading on that Bieber video, it's about putting massive barriers to creating new works and to transmitting culture.
Being content that you can live, eat and copulate is what animals do. It's important, yeah, but for me "humanity" means things what make us different from non-human animals, and most of that difference can be called "culture". Copyright is the current biggest obstacle to creation and transmission of culture, ergo, it is a crime against humanity.
Murdering a person destroys the animal part. Burning a book destroys the cultural part. Both parts matter. And while a single human is (usually) worth more than a single book, it's almost never a single book that gets burned.
...so...90 days then
Why this unwarranted optimism? Be realistic, 81 at the most.
See my sig -- we're getting more and more proofs that copyright is one of worst long-term evils.
Some of past discussions.
Let's see how the MAFIAA argues that burning down the SoundCloud of Alexandria leads to "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts".
If it weren't for Russia we'd be Germans.
You mean the same Russia that started that war? The same Russia that in 1944 shot at American planes and supported Germans, just so they have a slightly stronger propaganda stance if the Warsaw Uprising fails?
Nope, Wine itself is enough, at least on installations which I looked at.
In the other hand, the exe thumbnailer is not an official Gnome project but comes from Ubuntu -- so with all of Gnome's insanities, this one is not their fault.
Using an exponential scale gives you an increased range with the same number of bits, varying resolution in parts of the range (ie, a fixed amount of meaningful digits rather than a fixed absolute accuracy).. It's easy to do so in a way that can represent any conceivable real input. And if even that is not enough, you can use bignums.
Slowwwww down thar, jack. I'm only allowing facebook crap to load on facebook, and I didn't say otherwise. I perhaps wasn't clear, but making assumptions is half-cocked.
Sorry for questioning your sanity then :)
And why those "security researchers" won't teach users about the dangers of DRM? That pirated content are harmless data-only files, while "legal" crap requires installing backdoor malware.
but I permit facebook stuff to load
May I ask why? Why in the blazes a reasonable person would ever allow anything Facebook to load (assuming you're not paid for pushing crap there)?
If you have a family member who insists on still using Facebook, most of the blockers can be configured to allow it through on a single site (like facebook.com directly), I don't have any experience there though (thanks Marduk!). Letting it crap on, track you on, and, as you say, lock your setup on, random third-party sites, is preposterous.
These names are not predictable for computers either. These random numbers get rerolled on major kernel upgrades (quite rarely but enough in the ong run), when kernel config changes, when you attach a new piece of hardware, for no reason whatsoever, or in some cases even every single boot.
But then we have your sig, don't we. Just shows how out of touch with reality you really are...
Lemme paste one of my prior comments. The rest of discussion is worth reading, too:
-------------------
Many folks call copyright (rather than copyright violations) "theft", but I'd go farther. Being a form of censorship, it is a crime against humanity.
A mere war against lives is limited in scope. With free dissemination of ideas, oppressive regimes don't last long -- note how the first thing they try is blocking communication among protesters and jailing of authors/journalists/etc who dare to voice something that opposes the regime in question. War on culture has effects that last forever. Books burned don't come back.
Imagine a guy in, say, 400BC, who took a spray^H^H^H^H^Hbucket of paint and wrote something on a wall. Like everyone else born during the next 2300 years, his life is gone. Yet a part of him lives on. Culture has the potential to last forever.
Copyright, by massively hampering culture, is the very worst thing we have.