a) Don't play the nation's anthem before the game. It is INHERENTLY POLITICAL to play the national anthem.
b) Don't force the players to be on the field when the anthem plays. This wasn't even an issue until 2009- before that players were in the locker room at that time.
c) Don't force the players to pay homage to a nation that's killing their 7 and 12 year old children, denying them credit, and giving them grossly unequal and unfair police and judicial treatment (most recently shooting an innocent black man with mental issues for running when they stopped him for failing to have a red rear reflector on his bike).
but hey.. I don't watch the NFL to begin with. When Bud Adams fired Bum Phillips, I lost all interest in the game.. over 25 years ago.
These people are *REMEMBERING* details of their criminal activity but we can't read their minds! Now that we have a machine that can interpret what people are thinking- you are pro crime unless you allow us to read everyone's minds.
You get snow in winter time? We don't where I live any more. Used to be about every 8 years. And we'd have about 6 weeks of freezing temperatures (lasting into March sometimes) too. Not any more. No snow for over a decade. Down to a few days freezing temperatures and mostly only at night.
I agree that many kinds of insanity are terrible. Yours appears to be. You have my sympathy.
Yea- I went thru cancer and recognize I was lucky to live (incurable only 18 months before I got it). It was a hellish year but I got thru it okay and a bit optimistically even tho people I met died and didn't make it and I was probably stuck with needles over 500 times (and I am irrationally afraid of needles) and literally spent weeks throwing up.
On the world, It's full of issues that can't and won't be rectified. It's gotten uglier my entire life and the trend is down- living standards will slowly decline for most people. Short of some truly miraculous event or discoveries there will probably be terribly horrible times for people 30 and younger.
I think you mean acne. Being rational isn't the ideal state you suppose it to be. I see people who are a little irrational are happier.
I find extroverts gain energy from being around new people and groups of people. Introverts lose/spend energy from being around new people and groups of people.
I'm an extrovert by training (Dale Carnegie) and that mitigates the energy loss (because you have a plan/script) but I still can run out and need to get away from people.
When tested on meyer's briggs I used to be barely an "I" tho. These days, I'm barely an "E".
I envy those people I know who are capable of insanity and irrationality.
So far my brain just won't break.
But alzheimers or dementia are probably in my late 70s.
It's a problem because the rational person sees a lot of the bad in the world and can't really alleviate their own suffering other than by taking mind altering substances or temporarily distracting activities.
Never forget that the many of the people who did lose their jobs to industrialization died homeless of exposure and starvation after being put down by the military. They were provided neither training nor jobs on the new machines (which was their true issue).
Similarly, we could have a very rough 20 years where jobs are destroyed faster than they can be created and where workers over 50 (40?) can't afford train for the new jobs and there are more unemployed than society is willing to pay for (even tho our productivity is 100x what it was a hundred years ago so one worker should be able to completely support 99 unemployed with 200 square feet of living space and basic food).
It's coming. It could be better but it's probably going to be bad. Possibly even "great depression" or "financial panic of 18xx" bad. (they had a lot of financial panics in the 1800s that were pretty terrible.).
I seriously doubt that a world class english major with a doctorate in english literature and accolades in their field can be used in a meaningful way in drug design or climate modeling.
But... a very smart person trained for 10 years in those fields might be able to contribute.
However, a.i. probably trained is already contributing in a meaningful way to drug design (even coming up with new drugs humans hadn't considered) for... well.. several years now.
And while I don't personally know about climate modeling- I wouldn't bet my life savings against A.I. not being able to contribute in a meaningful way there either.
When I say, "the ultimate goal"... I mean that microsoft has revealed in bits and pieces that their very long term goal is a subscription model. Like cable TV. They also gather a lot of information and send it home. Some of the type of information they gather is used to inform advertising. Based on the path other programs have taken, they will charge a subscription and then sometime after that embed commercials in your windows experience. And then after that commercials from 'select' business partners. Of course, there will be a premium subscription with no commercials (which will change later to "fewer" commercials).
AC said: I didn't realize anyone liked the ribbons. I know I'm not anyone's demographic. I actually like gnome 3, win10 (enterprise anyway), and unity, but I mostly use windowing systems to separate my terminals from my graphics. Buttons and menus are icky. Is it the speed of recognition that the ribbon helps with? I don't use applications that way, just keyboard shortcuts which ms helpfully hasn't changed since long ago.
I think ribbons are supposed to help new users because they are "intuitive".
One person's "intuitive" is another person's "How the hell do you do this simple task? Where is the button?"
They help at first but at a tremendous cost once you gain skill. It's like having training wheels on your motorcycle --- and they never ever come off.
And I forgot to mention the ribbon bar interface change where some functionality was completely lost for 6 months before I figured out how to do it again because it had been so well hidden.
Windows 8, windows 10... suffering. Change not just for change sake but also with more instrumentation to spy on you, to advertise to you. Ultimate goal is that we pay a monthly fee AND we have to put up with commercials to use our own computer.
Actually... without electricity gasoline stations don't work either. In houston, after Ike, there were severe problems getting gasoline for over a week. People just stopped driving until the stations started working again because you didn't want to get stranded.
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If you want to keep politics to yourself then
a) Don't play the nation's anthem before the game. It is INHERENTLY POLITICAL to play the national anthem.
b) Don't force the players to be on the field when the anthem plays. This wasn't even an issue until 2009- before that players were in the locker room at that time.
c) Don't force the players to pay homage to a nation that's killing their 7 and 12 year old children, denying them credit, and giving them grossly unequal and unfair police and judicial treatment (most recently shooting an innocent black man with mental issues for running when they stopped him for failing to have a red rear reflector on his bike).
but hey.. I don't watch the NFL to begin with. When Bud Adams fired Bum Phillips, I lost all interest in the game.. over 25 years ago.
It's just a bad scene and you know they are going to screw you over- you just don't know how.
These people are *REMEMBERING* details of their criminal activity but we can't read their minds! Now that we have a machine that can interpret what people are thinking- you are pro crime unless you allow us to read everyone's minds.
Cultural values change.
I thought "why not bury them under the sea surrounding Hong Kong?"
Depression can be very rough when it's due to mental illness rather than "normal" depression due to natural causes. It just goes on without end.
They are very close on jet fuel. If artificial jet fuel got a fraction of the subsidies oil companies did, it would probably be competitive now.
We would have no need to have spent 2 trillion dollars if iraq wasn't an oil country.
I'm looking forward to a time when oil is an interesting low profit item and not a major geopolitical force any more.
You get snow in winter time? We don't where I live any more. Used to be about every 8 years. And we'd have about 6 weeks of freezing temperatures (lasting into March sometimes) too. Not any more. No snow for over a decade. Down to a few days freezing temperatures and mostly only at night.
It's a dumb joke... but it's mine.
Sure I do. We have freedom of our own thoughts. I feel how I feel and you don't get to say what I can feel sorry about.
I get that you are angry. I know a lot of people with mental issues that are negative. I also have relatives who are in irrational happy worlds.
I wish pot was legal here.
I thought you were going to tell the joke about man who was depressed and told he should see Bobo, the world famous clown.
You know it right?
I agree that many kinds of insanity are terrible. Yours appears to be. You have my sympathy.
Yea- I went thru cancer and recognize I was lucky to live (incurable only 18 months before I got it). It was a hellish year but I got thru it okay and a bit optimistically even tho people I met died and didn't make it and I was probably stuck with needles over 500 times (and I am irrationally afraid of needles) and literally spent weeks throwing up.
On the world, It's full of issues that can't and won't be rectified. It's gotten uglier my entire life and the trend is down- living standards will slowly decline for most people. Short of some truly miraculous event or discoveries there will probably be terribly horrible times for people 30 and younger.
I think you mean acne. Being rational isn't the ideal state you suppose it to be. I see people who are a little irrational are happier.
I find extroverts gain energy from being around new people and groups of people. Introverts lose/spend energy from being around new people and groups of people.
I'm an extrovert by training (Dale Carnegie) and that mitigates the energy loss (because you have a plan/script) but I still can run out and need to get away from people.
When tested on meyer's briggs I used to be barely an "I" tho. These days, I'm barely an "E".
I envy those people I know who are capable of insanity and irrationality.
So far my brain just won't break.
But alzheimers or dementia are probably in my late 70s.
It's a problem because the rational person sees a lot of the bad in the world and can't really alleviate their own suffering other than by taking mind altering substances or temporarily distracting activities.
Never forget that the many of the people who did lose their jobs to industrialization died homeless of exposure and starvation after being put down by the military. They were provided neither training nor jobs on the new machines (which was their true issue).
Similarly, we could have a very rough 20 years where jobs are destroyed faster than they can be created and where workers over 50 (40?) can't afford train for the new jobs and there are more unemployed than society is willing to pay for (even tho our productivity is 100x what it was a hundred years ago so one worker should be able to completely support 99 unemployed with 200 square feet of living space and basic food).
It's coming. It could be better but it's probably going to be bad. Possibly even "great depression" or "financial panic of 18xx" bad. (they had a lot of financial panics in the 1800s that were pretty terrible.).
I seriously doubt that a world class english major with a doctorate in english literature and accolades in their field can be used in a meaningful way in drug design or climate modeling.
But... a very smart person trained for 10 years in those fields might be able to contribute.
However, a.i. probably trained is already contributing in a meaningful way to drug design (even coming up with new drugs humans hadn't considered) for ... well.. several years now.
And while I don't personally know about climate modeling- I wouldn't bet my life savings against A.I. not being able to contribute in a meaningful way there either.
Boards may be 21x21 but may be other sizes as well.
I buy a decent box with the latest processor and then I upgrade the video card.
I do not build. It's a pain in the ass.
But.. it's worse than I thought. A couple other people have provided examples of it happening *now* already in windows 10.
Millions of americans failed to spot the truth last election.
I am pretty sure Slashdot and most other significant forums have corporate and government agents both posting and moderating posts at this point.
Are you not an native english speaker?
When I say, "the ultimate goal"... I mean that microsoft has revealed in bits and pieces that their very long term goal is a subscription model. Like cable TV. They also gather a lot of information and send it home. Some of the type of information they gather is used to inform advertising. Based on the path other programs have taken, they will charge a subscription and then sometime after that embed commercials in your windows experience. And then after that commercials from 'select' business partners. Of course, there will be a premium subscription with no commercials (which will change later to "fewer" commercials).
AC said: I didn't realize anyone liked the ribbons. I know I'm not anyone's demographic. I actually like gnome 3, win10 (enterprise anyway), and unity, but I mostly use windowing systems to separate my terminals from my graphics. Buttons and menus are icky. Is it the speed of recognition that the ribbon helps with? I don't use applications that way, just keyboard shortcuts which ms helpfully hasn't changed since long ago.
I think ribbons are supposed to help new users because they are "intuitive".
One person's "intuitive" is another person's "How the hell do you do this simple task? Where is the button?"
They help at first but at a tremendous cost once you gain skill. It's like having training wheels on your motorcycle --- and they never ever come off.
And I forgot to mention the ribbon bar interface change where some functionality was completely lost for 6 months before I figured out how to do it again because it had been so well hidden.
Windows 8, windows 10... suffering. Change not just for change sake but also with more instrumentation to spy on you, to advertise to you. Ultimate goal is that we pay a monthly fee AND we have to put up with commercials to use our own computer.
They also lie a ton more.
It's unfortunate because those telling the truth are more open and honest as you say.
Actually... without electricity gasoline stations don't work either. In houston, after Ike, there were severe problems getting gasoline for over a week. People just stopped driving until the stations started working again because you didn't want to get stranded.