A fascist at the helm with a Tea Party congress. That is a really scary outlook for the West, but maybe we have to settle with Le Pen becoming the next president in France. The key question is then. Where can we emigrate to when that happens to be safe from their stupidity.
If the US would be a true democracy then this would work. However, lately all western countries including the US decided to become more and more anti democratic states where the masses get well indoctrinated by the media. Don't get me wrong. This is not a conspiracy theory with Lizard people controlling the public. It is about fat elites which are unable to address the problems on earth and which decided that their personal short term interests are more important than the big picture. Of course there is media which transports more facts. However, people rather watch CNN (which often fail) or even worse FoxNews (the real news) which is in fact a propaganda channel. The Soviets would have liked to have such good propaganda.
Beside these issues, we also have power issues. The elites have much more influence on politics than the average person. This is totally anti democratic. Furthermore, we have laws which favor corporation interests. For example, in the US companies do not have to proof in advance that what they intend to sell is harmless. When people then get hurt, they have to proof it was due to a problem with the product. True, if they win it becomes very expensive for companies. However, it would be still better to protect the people from harm in the first place.
No you need to show the documents which show that he is working for Hilary Clinton, the Marsians, the IS, Putin, some other aliens, like the Lizard people, the pope, or Jon Stewart. Most likely I forgot the most important conspiracy theory. Maybe he works for the evil scientists who want to hide the truth about flat earth or global warming.
Ah. So we are all stupid. Nice. How about explaining what Anonymous is? As @TWX said they are an unstructured group with no leadership hierarchy. If they are not that then they are a structured group with a leadership hierarchy. However, I assume that you will deny this too. So please enlighten us and explain what Anonymous is. Thanks in advance.
First of all I am 44 which is already close enough. And second, I do not want to die with 50, but if it happens when I am fifty, well better make sure my life was a happy one, which it isn't why else would I time on./;-)
If I am happy and die with 50 then that is fine. I would also be happy when I reach 90 and been happy all the time. Longevity is not that important. In the end you are dead and there is no sense in being miserable all your life for 90 years, except you are a poet then this is what you like. So you are at least happy that you are so wonderfully miserable.
This is rubbish. In the last 70 years crime got down every year. And especially those in East Germany armed their population while West Germany did not. On a side node do you think that all the old EU states are totalitarian? I guess not.
Why is it then that we have only a fraction of such shootings compared to the US? True gun control does not prohibit such violance, however it limits it. Also it communicates that we are a peaceful society. The thing is we (humans) came up with the idea of the monopoly of force which resides with the state. And it works well in the EU.
BTW if these mass shootings are not related to gun control or the lack of, then it must be a societal issue. Do you think US citizens are more violent than their European counterparts?
Especially on a geek outlet, I should not need to explain the word integration. However, as there might be some confusion. Integration does not mean assimilation and it does not mean that people have to become more Muslim what ever that means. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
First, it is necessary that people do not feel excluded. In the US, for example, black people often feel excluded and mistreated. This requires many different efforts, for example, people of the minority should be part of the police. And police officers must be trained in understanding cultural differences (this is necessary because someone forgot it integrate the people before, otherwise they would know how to react in a "French" way). It is also important to use gentrification to break up ghetto structures and achieve mixed population areas. Provide language courses to all people. Make them compulsory in school (if there are deficits). In case people commit crimes: Don't use prisons only to put people away. In any case it is better to not put them in. Instead let them do things for the public in the city district they live in. Second, support efforts by the minority to communicate their cultural differences in form of events. You do not become a Muslim just be talking to one. However, you might better understand him when you had a chat with one. And finally it must be clear that it is not Muslims vs. Christians, it is terrorists vs. us peace lovers.
Gun control helped to have 1.24 death by gun violence per 100 000 people in France and Germany compared to 10.5 in the US (figures 2010).
gun control also helps to limit the ability to commit mass shootings. It does not completely circumvent such acts. In case of France, a better integration program, social workers, and education/training programs would have helped. This have been iterated here http://www.theguardian.com/pro...
We have a website that changed the definition of "mass shooting" so they could claim we had one almost every day. Using the standard FBI definition, we've had one every other month or so.
So when it is only every month or week that makes it acceptable? You have 8 times people killed by guns compared to Germany or France per capita. So really you think it is all fine in the US? Very strange.
No gun control is not about preventing terrorists go crazy. Even though it makes it harder for them to get guns in the first place. Sadly, Belgium is such a mess that you can easily get the guns there. Anyway, in the US you have daily shootings. Depending on statistics you have a serious mass shooting every second day and "normal" mass shootings every day. You have the highest rates in shot persons per capita compared to European countries. US 10.5, Germany 1.24, Spain 0.62. So it is 8 times more likely to get shot in the US than in Germany. Gun control has some benefits. And it contributes to my freedom. I can walk around at night and not get shot by police or other people.
And neither do most Eastern countries, or Southern countries, or Northern countries, etc. Yet many of them have murder rates far higher than the US.
Oh great so the US does not suck compared to a large number of dictatorships and failing states? I compared the US to states which are democracies and have at least a comparable GDP per capita.
And you have a mass shooting almost every day
Only by a measure which includes 'shootings' in which nobody was killed, and the vast majority is gang violence in the inner city.
And no it makes no difference whether Jihad Joe, Racist Randolf or Narco Nick kills people. The people are terrified by that.
31,537 people die from gun violence every year in the USA. Based on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... you have 10.5 people shot per 100 000 people a year. In Germany that is 1.24, in Spain 0.62, in the Netherlands 0.46. And you think you do not have a problem? Really)
BTW: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... that we have far less people in prison. So western Europe looks quite save to me. With rape it is 27.3 (2010) in the USA, in France 16.2 (2009) in Germany 9.4 (2010) in Spain 3.4 (2010). It is only higher in Sweden 63.5. However, they have very different laws what rape is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
And we do not have a refugee crisis. We have a problem in distributing refugees fairly in Europe. However, I am absolutely sure that Germany and Sweden are able to handle it. Not so sure about Greece, but maybe the EU will figure out a way to work together again (which is the real issue). Also we have a problem with fascist and nationalist movements in eastern Europe, e.g., Hungary and Poland. Still it does not make things better for you when we fail on our own problems. You will still have your gun problem.
Guns are not the solution, they are your damn problem. Look no Western country allows to carry around guns and buy guns that easily. And you have a mass shooting almost every day. It is in fact not different if the person does that because he or she is a fascist, racist, islamist, or something else. The only thing that would help is gun control. Your ignorance (as a country) will be your undoing.
In densly populated areas mass transit is the right technology to transport people and goods. In future we will augment that with other short and mid range transport technologies, like bikes, e-bikes, low speed autonomous cabs etc.
In detail, yes you learn them in the job, but most of it is part of a 3 semester course at our university. And in the fourth semester they have a to use their knowledge, except for continuous integration and evolution.
However, half of the students are not really up to it. These students are usually also unable to program.
He is right in one thing. Programming is not easy. It is easy for programmers. However, it requires a specific mind set which includes to be able to deconstruct problems. You cannot really teach this at university. And you need to be able to tolerate frustration which is required to get an CS degree, at least at all universities I have been. And to some extend you can train that.
However, CS education does help people to become better or even good programmers if they have the right mind set. And CS is not only programming it is also about inquiring customers, deriving requirements, features, planning, software design, combined with topics like continuous integration and delivery, software evolution, product lines, version control, documentation (real documentation not the shit most people write which contains the same information as the code) etc. And you should understand the application domains you code for.
Depends on the kind of agile. (a) an excuse do not document and hack around delivering a broken product. Or (b) an iterative development approach.
For option (a) a person unable to code would not be a problem. However, (b) requires someone who can estimate effort, which requires an experiend developer and engineer.
The cause of the mess is most likely also known to the author of the blog post. Still it is not a good language design and that is what all the critic is about.
What do you mean by intelligence? Why should human have or lack it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Some define intelligence as one's capacity for logic, abstract thought, understanding, self-awareness, communication, learning, emotional knowledge, memory, planning, creativity and problem solving. Even the dumbest person is able to reason, even though most people do not use their intelligence. However, this is still not a comprehensive definition. They only describe what a intelligent system can do.
What do you mean by intelligent? If you want to make this a serious discussion try to define intelligence. I doubt you are able to do it in a comprehensive way. And any other definition can easily applied to humans.
Computers can already resolve fact based issues faster and better than humans. However, intelligence is not only reasoning. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Therefore, the machines are not able to compete with us. And as long as we do not know what intelligence really is, we cannot built it.
We do not really know what intelligence (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence) is. Therefore, we cannot built a machine which has that. We also do not know what self-awareness is (which is considered by some people to be part of intelligence). We just have it. True, many would say: "I know who I am and that I exist, so I am self-aware. And you can add this information to a machine." But that is not the same. Self-awareness goes beyond the information of existing, as information is nothing more than elements and relations between elements. However, the feeling of being alive goes far beyond it and until now no one has a comprehensive definition. Therefore, there will be no real AI any time soon.
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A fascist at the helm with a Tea Party congress. That is a really scary outlook for the West, but maybe we have to settle with Le Pen becoming the next president in France. The key question is then. Where can we emigrate to when that happens to be safe from their stupidity.
If the US would be a true democracy then this would work. However, lately all western countries including the US decided to become more and more anti democratic states where the masses get well indoctrinated by the media. Don't get me wrong. This is not a conspiracy theory with Lizard people controlling the public. It is about fat elites which are unable to address the problems on earth and which decided that their personal short term interests are more important than the big picture. Of course there is media which transports more facts. However, people rather watch CNN (which often fail) or even worse FoxNews (the real news) which is in fact a propaganda channel. The Soviets would have liked to have such good propaganda.
Beside these issues, we also have power issues. The elites have much more influence on politics than the average person. This is totally anti democratic. Furthermore, we have laws which favor corporation interests. For example, in the US companies do not have to proof in advance that what they intend to sell is harmless. When people then get hurt, they have to proof it was due to a problem with the product. True, if they win it becomes very expensive for companies. However, it would be still better to protect the people from harm in the first place.
No you need to show the documents which show that he is working for Hilary Clinton, the Marsians, the IS, Putin, some other aliens, like the Lizard people, the pope, or Jon Stewart. Most likely I forgot the most important conspiracy theory. Maybe he works for the evil scientists who want to hide the truth about flat earth or global warming.
Ah. So we are all stupid. Nice. How about explaining what Anonymous is? As @TWX said they are an unstructured group with no leadership hierarchy. If they are not that then they are a structured group with a leadership hierarchy. However, I assume that you will deny this too. So please enlighten us and explain what Anonymous is. Thanks in advance.
First of all I am 44 which is already close enough. ./ ;-)
And second, I do not want to die with 50, but if it happens when I am fifty, well better make sure my life was a happy one, which it isn't why else would I time on
If I am happy and die with 50 then that is fine. I would also be happy when I reach 90 and been happy all the time. Longevity is not that important. In the end you are dead and there is no sense in being miserable all your life for 90 years, except you are a poet then this is what you like. So you are at least happy that you are so wonderfully miserable.
Is this an advert? Looks like this "news" is in the ./ rotation. It comes up every now and then.
This is rubbish. In the last 70 years crime got down every year. And especially those in East Germany armed their population while West Germany did not. On a side node do you think that all the old EU states are totalitarian? I guess not.
Why is it then that we have only a fraction of such shootings compared to the US? True gun control does not prohibit such violance, however it limits it. Also it communicates that we are a peaceful society. The thing is we (humans) came up with the idea of the monopoly of force which resides with the state. And it works well in the EU.
BTW if these mass shootings are not related to gun control or the lack of, then it must be a societal issue. Do you think US citizens are more violent than their European counterparts?
Especially on a geek outlet, I should not need to explain the word integration. However, as there might be some confusion. Integration does not mean assimilation and it does not mean that people have to become more Muslim what ever that means. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
First, it is necessary that people do not feel excluded. In the US, for example, black people often feel excluded and mistreated. This requires many different efforts, for example, people of the minority should be part of the police. And police officers must be trained in understanding cultural differences (this is necessary because someone forgot it integrate the people before, otherwise they would know how to react in a "French" way).
It is also important to use gentrification to break up ghetto structures and achieve mixed population areas. Provide language courses to all people. Make them compulsory in school (if there are deficits). In case people commit crimes: Don't use prisons only to put people away. In any case it is better to not put them in. Instead let them do things for the public in the city district they live in.
Second, support efforts by the minority to communicate their cultural differences in form of events. You do not become a Muslim just be talking to one. However, you might better understand him when you had a chat with one.
And finally it must be clear that it is not Muslims vs. Christians, it is terrorists vs. us peace lovers.
Gun control helped to have 1.24 death by gun violence per 100 000 people in France and Germany compared to 10.5 in the US (figures 2010).
gun control also helps to limit the ability to commit mass shootings. It does not completely circumvent such acts. In case of France, a better integration program, social workers, and education/training programs would have helped. This have been iterated here http://www.theguardian.com/pro...
We have a website that changed the definition of "mass shooting" so they could claim we had one almost every day. Using the standard FBI definition, we've had one every other month or so.
So when it is only every month or week that makes it acceptable? You have 8 times people killed by guns compared to Germany or France per capita. So really you think it is all fine in the US? Very strange.
No gun control is not about preventing terrorists go crazy. Even though it makes it harder for them to get guns in the first place. Sadly, Belgium is such a mess that you can easily get the guns there. Anyway, in the US you have daily shootings. Depending on statistics you have a serious mass shooting every second day and "normal" mass shootings every day. You have the highest rates in shot persons per capita compared to European countries. US 10.5, Germany 1.24, Spain 0.62. So it is 8 times more likely to get shot in the US than in Germany. Gun control has some benefits. And it contributes to my freedom. I can walk around at night and not get shot by police or other people.
And neither do most Eastern countries, or Southern countries, or Northern countries, etc. Yet many of them have murder rates far higher than the US.
Oh great so the US does not suck compared to a large number of dictatorships and failing states? I compared the US to states which are democracies and have at least a comparable GDP per capita.
And you have a mass shooting almost every day
Only by a measure which includes 'shootings' in which nobody was killed, and the vast majority is gang violence in the inner city.
Have a look at http://shootingtracker.com/wik...
And no it makes no difference whether Jihad Joe, Racist Randolf or Narco Nick kills people. The people are terrified by that.
31,537 people die from gun violence every year in the USA. Based on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... you have 10.5 people shot per 100 000 people a year. In Germany that is 1.24, in Spain 0.62, in the Netherlands 0.46. And you think you do not have a problem? Really)
BTW: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... that we have far less people in prison. So western Europe looks quite save to me.
With rape it is 27.3 (2010) in the USA, in France 16.2 (2009) in Germany 9.4 (2010) in Spain 3.4 (2010). It is only higher in Sweden 63.5. However, they have very different laws what rape is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
And we do not have a refugee crisis. We have a problem in distributing refugees fairly in Europe. However, I am absolutely sure that Germany and Sweden are able to handle it. Not so sure about Greece, but maybe the EU will figure out a way to work together again (which is the real issue). Also we have a problem with fascist and nationalist movements in eastern Europe, e.g., Hungary and Poland. Still it does not make things better for you when we fail on our own problems. You will still have your gun problem.
Guns are not the solution, they are your damn problem. Look no Western country allows to carry around guns and buy guns that easily. And you have a mass shooting almost every day. It is in fact not different if the person does that because he or she is a fascist, racist, islamist, or something else. The only thing that would help is gun control. Your ignorance (as a country) will be your undoing.
In densly populated areas mass transit is the right technology to transport people and goods. In future we will augment that with other short and mid range transport technologies, like bikes, e-bikes, low speed autonomous cabs etc.
In detail, yes you learn them in the job, but most of it is part of a 3 semester course at our university. And in the fourth semester they have a to use their knowledge, except for continuous integration and evolution.
However, half of the students are not really up to it. These students are usually also unable to program.
He is right in one thing. Programming is not easy. It is easy for programmers. However, it requires a specific mind set which includes to be able to deconstruct problems. You cannot really teach this at university. And you need to be able to tolerate frustration which is required to get an CS degree, at least at all universities I have been. And to some extend you can train that.
However, CS education does help people to become better or even good programmers if they have the right mind set. And CS is not only programming it is also about inquiring customers, deriving requirements, features, planning, software design, combined with topics like continuous integration and delivery, software evolution, product lines, version control, documentation (real documentation not the shit most people write which contains the same information as the code) etc.
And you should understand the application domains you code for.
Depends on the kind of agile. (a) an excuse do not document and hack around delivering a broken product. Or (b) an iterative development approach.
For option (a) a person unable to code would not be a problem. However, (b) requires someone who can estimate effort, which requires an experiend developer and engineer.
The cause of the mess is most likely also known to the author of the blog post. Still it is not a good language design and that is what all the critic is about.
What do you mean by intelligence? Why should human have or lack it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Some define intelligence as one's capacity for logic, abstract thought, understanding, self-awareness, communication, learning, emotional knowledge, memory, planning, creativity and problem solving.
Even the dumbest person is able to reason, even though most people do not use their intelligence. However, this is still not a comprehensive definition. They only describe what a intelligent system can do.
What do you mean by intelligent? If you want to make this a serious discussion try to define intelligence. I doubt you are able to do it in a comprehensive way. And any other definition can easily applied to humans.
Computers can already resolve fact based issues faster and better than humans. However, intelligence is not only reasoning. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Therefore, the machines are not able to compete with us. And as long as we do not know what intelligence really is, we cannot built it.
We do not really know what intelligence (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence) is. Therefore, we cannot built a machine which has that. We also do not know what self-awareness is (which is considered by some people to be part of intelligence). We just have it. True, many would say: "I know who I am and that I exist, so I am self-aware. And you can add this information to a machine." But that is not the same. Self-awareness goes beyond the information of existing, as information is nothing more than elements and relations between elements. However, the feeling of being alive goes far beyond it and until now no one has a comprehensive definition.
Therefore, there will be no real AI any time soon.
Please someone, mod. this up.