"Well, while it may seem like something else to you, what you DID wrote was: 1. ethnicity and culture correlate somehow,"
Ethnicity or ethnic group (from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_group):...is a socially defined category of people who identify with each other based on a perceived shared social experience or ancestry.
So, yes, ethnicity and culture correlate somehow. Do you have a problem with that?
"2. based on that, somehow, ethnicity can be defined as criminal."
Given that, obviously, some societies can and have been seen as posing criminal traits, like huns, and that ethnicity can be rooted to a society, at least in some cases, then yes, it is at least theoretically possible to consider an ethnicity as criminal. And then, I went stating that ancient huns are a practical example of that. Again, what's exactly the part from what I written that you disagree with?
"The Huns! As a cultural standard of comparison, from 4th century CE."
Are you implying that somehow 4th century Huns can't be considered an ethnic group? Is it the case that ethnicity was not "invented" till the twentieth century, or something like that?
But, hey, if you have a problem with 4th century, here comes something to your delight: I left it out on my first comment just to give Mr Godwin a chance but, since it seems you are longing for it...
German nazis are an ethnicity since they are "...a socially defined category of people who identify with each other based on a perceived shared social experience or ancestry." Do you have any kind of problem considering the German nazis, considered as a whole, to be criminal?
"Was the button labelled: "Do not press this button, ever!!!" ?"
Why you'd want the button, then?
"Was there a seal on it, that you have to disrupt before being able to press it?"
This button was meant to be used as part of business as usual operations, now why you should seal it as if it were a non-for-usual-operations device?
"Is there a counter to check how many times it was pressed and when?"
What for? And how that would prevent the button being pressed out of requirements?
"Why isn't the button locked with a key so that it cannot be pressed 'carelessly' by somebody putting his lunch on it?"
Because the key is in the door before the system that reads "Authorized personnel only"
"Or was it just a careless button for careless monkeys who have no idea what they are doing?"
Or was it an anonymous coward just spitting every nonsense that crosses his mind without ever read the article?
A better question would be, as per the article's contents: was it that the inspector was running a mistaken procedure or was it that the pump switch was not properly labelled?
"No, but the underlying psychology is the same; We want computers and equipment that do what we say without questioning it. Asking for confirmation insults our intelligence"
Asking for confirmation makes scripting it harder while at the same time getting nothing on interactive use. When was the last time you did NOT unconciously pressed the "yes" button after an "are you sure?" message?
The problem is "security theatre" not something about egos: it is something cumbersome and doesn't really work.
"but who needs the idea to switch off the friggin' cooling pumps easily in the first place? "
These pumps (as basically all of them) can present a catastrophic failure scenario, while having the pump stopped for hours or even days is not a major problem and can't go unnoticed till it's too late to react so, can you imagine what's the operation you want easy and unencumbered?
"We're all going to find out there's some still-unexplained phenomenon where every object outside the solar system is actually much closer than it appears to us"
And then, a bit later, we'll recieve a deep WOOOOONNNNNK! as Voyager hits the Celestial Sphere.
"At no point should it be acceptable that/anybodies/ ethnic or racial background be a synonym for 'criminal'"
Racial? for sure it shouldn't make any difference but, ethnicity?
Sorry if it doesn't sound politically correct to you but ethnicity and culture go hand in hand and, therefore, is perfectly possible to define an ethnicity as criminal (by others' standards): Huns, for instace, were definitely criminals by everybody else's standards. Do you find that to be unreasonable?
"No software could magically connect you to the other side of the world, that requires a service."
Apples to oranges. SaaS release your data to an undesired third party. In order to connect to and intended server in the other side of the world there's no need for data to be stored in any server in the middle.
If that's what you really wanted to write down, why you just didn't!?
Jessep: You want answers? Kaffee (Tom Cruise): I think I'm entitled to them. Jessep: You want answers? Kaffee: I want the truth! Jessep: You can't handle the truth! Son, we live in a world that has walls. And those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinberg? I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago and you curse the Marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know: that Santiago's death, while tragic, probably saved lives. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives...You don't want the truth. Because deep down, in places you don't talk about at parties, you want me on that wall. You need me on that wall. We use words like honor, code, loyalty...we use these words as the backbone to a life spent defending something. You use 'em as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom I provide, then questions the manner in which I provide it! I'd rather you just said thank you and went on your way. Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon and stand a post. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you're entitled to! Kaffee: Did you order the code red? Jessep: (quietly) I did the job you sent me to do. Kaffee: Did you order the code red? Jessep: You're goddamn right I did!!
"Which doesn't help if the Service is a social network whose value lies in allowing users to communicate with other users of the same Service."
Which is also a point covered by RMS: an enlighted society, one where education on free software and why it's important won't be wanting to exchange their privacy and freedom for some puppies' videos.
"Selfishness, for Rand, means making oneself the best person possible: wise, productive, sober, truthful, knowledgeable, etc.."
Usually, the one that first come to an idea is the one that gains the privilege to put a name to it. That's not "selfinesh", that's Plato's enlighted philosopher.
"The rewards for selfishness include monetary compensation and pride."
If she really said that, she was perfectly stupid, full stop.
For this to work, your fellows have to be enlighted philosophers too and, if that's the case, say, communism offers the same results with much less fanfarre.
"Banks can't force you to take a mortgage against your will."
Do you imply that lenders can force the bank to offer the mortage, then? Yeah, so I thought.
"You are the only person to decide whether you want to take out a mortgage"
And the bank is the only entity to decide whether they want to sign off a mortage.
"When it comes to mortgages, the borrower is in complete control."
So you mean they can get a mortage even if the bank doesn't want to? Yeah, so I thought.
"Home owners have perfect information"
They can produce an exact calculation of their financial risk because they have access to statistical analysis of the market -both the borrowers and the real state, they can analyse the economic and labour trends, etc. Much better than Fannie Mae et al. Yeah, sure.
"Part of the problem with the crisis was that lenders didn't get that information"
They didn't have access to lenders' credit record, job status, other financial loads... oh, wait!
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"Well, while it may seem like something else to you, what you DID wrote was:
1. ethnicity and culture correlate somehow,"
Ethnicity or ethnic group (from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_group): ...is a socially defined category of people who identify with each other based on a perceived shared social experience or ancestry.
So, yes, ethnicity and culture correlate somehow. Do you have a problem with that?
"2. based on that, somehow, ethnicity can be defined as criminal."
Given that, obviously, some societies can and have been seen as posing criminal traits, like huns, and that ethnicity can be rooted to a society, at least in some cases, then yes, it is at least theoretically possible to consider an ethnicity as criminal. And then, I went stating that ancient huns are a practical example of that. Again, what's exactly the part from what I written that you disagree with?
"The Huns! As a cultural standard of comparison, from 4th century CE."
Are you implying that somehow 4th century Huns can't be considered an ethnic group? Is it the case that ethnicity was not "invented" till the twentieth century, or something like that?
But, hey, if you have a problem with 4th century, here comes something to your delight: I left it out on my first comment just to give Mr Godwin a chance but, since it seems you are longing for it...
German nazis are an ethnicity since they are "...a socially defined category of people who identify with each other based on a perceived shared social experience or ancestry." Do you have any kind of problem considering the German nazis, considered as a whole, to be criminal?
"Was the button labelled: "Do not press this button, ever!!!" ?"
Why you'd want the button, then?
"Was there a seal on it, that you have to disrupt before being able to press it?"
This button was meant to be used as part of business as usual operations, now why you should seal it as if it were a non-for-usual-operations device?
"Is there a counter to check how many times it was pressed and when?"
What for? And how that would prevent the button being pressed out of requirements?
"Why isn't the button locked with a key so that it cannot be pressed 'carelessly' by somebody putting his lunch on it?"
Because the key is in the door before the system that reads "Authorized personnel only"
"Or was it just a careless button for careless monkeys who have no idea what they are doing?"
Or was it an anonymous coward just spitting every nonsense that crosses his mind without ever read the article?
A better question would be, as per the article's contents: was it that the inspector was running a mistaken procedure or was it that the pump switch was not properly labelled?
"No, but the underlying psychology is the same; We want computers and equipment that do what we say without questioning it. Asking for confirmation insults our intelligence"
Asking for confirmation makes scripting it harder while at the same time getting nothing on interactive use. When was the last time you did NOT unconciously pressed the "yes" button after an "are you sure?" message?
The problem is "security theatre" not something about egos: it is something cumbersome and doesn't really work.
"but who needs the idea to switch off the friggin' cooling pumps easily in the first place? "
These pumps (as basically all of them) can present a catastrophic failure scenario, while having the pump stopped for hours or even days is not a major problem and can't go unnoticed till it's too late to react so, can you imagine what's the operation you want easy and unencumbered?
No, The Illiad writes UserFriendly.
"We're all going to find out there's some still-unexplained phenomenon where every object outside the solar system is actually much closer than it appears to us"
And then, a bit later, we'll recieve a deep WOOOOONNNNNK! as Voyager hits the Celestial Sphere.
"The warming of waters by nuclear power may locally..."
Do you really need citations to know that nuclear plants' refrigeration warm local waters?
What if, what if...
There's no damn planet out of Pluto's orbit! ...on his book, that is.
Did you payed attention to what I wrote instead of what you wanted to believe that I wrote?
Of course not.
""Dumb" is such a broad, useless term."
You are right. I should have been more precise.
"The study shows that aging changes the thermostat on your ability to evaluate risk and reward."
There I go: "we get more stupid with age."
Stupid: [2] Tending to make poor decisions or careless mistakes.
"There's been a huge increase in the jellyfish populations around the world, they've been thriving as the seas warm up"
Or is it as overfishing grows?
"At no point should it be acceptable that /anybodies/ ethnic or racial background be a synonym for 'criminal'"
Racial? for sure it shouldn't make any difference but, ethnicity?
Sorry if it doesn't sound politically correct to you but ethnicity and culture go hand in hand and, therefore, is perfectly possible to define an ethnicity as criminal (by others' standards): Huns, for instace, were definitely criminals by everybody else's standards. Do you find that to be unreasonable?
"so people with no practical experience in life are judging people with massive experience on the quality of their decision making abilities."
No, they aren't.
They are metering their scores on a game and studying the correlation between scores and ages.
And if all that mattered were that correlation, the one that modded you insightful would be at least 200 year old.
"No"
Exactly: no.
TFA is easy and clear. Conclussion: we get dumber with age.
There was a time when mobile phones were too expensive also.
"No software could magically connect you to the other side of the world, that requires a service."
Apples to oranges. SaaS release your data to an undesired third party. In order to connect to and intended server in the other side of the world there's no need for data to be stored in any server in the middle.
"and peoples eyes are cameras... accessing the recorded memories by unauthorized personnel is a bit hard right now though."
That's what google glass is for.
If that's what you really wanted to write down, why you just didn't!?
Jessep: You want answers?
Kaffee (Tom Cruise): I think I'm entitled to them.
Jessep: You want answers?
Kaffee: I want the truth!
Jessep: You can't handle the truth! Son, we live in a world that has walls. And those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinberg? I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago and you curse the Marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know: that Santiago's death, while tragic, probably saved lives. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives...You don't want the truth. Because deep down, in places you don't talk about at parties, you want me on that wall. You need me on that wall.
We use words like honor, code, loyalty...we use these words as the backbone to a life spent defending something. You use 'em as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom I provide, then questions the manner in which I provide it! I'd rather you just said thank you and went on your way. Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon and stand a post. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you're entitled to!
Kaffee: Did you order the code red?
Jessep: (quietly) I did the job you sent me to do.
Kaffee: Did you order the code red?
Jessep: You're goddamn right I did!!
"automated intel data analysis is still a very tough problem"
Well, they surely are looking into AMD and ARM proposals too.
"Be greedy and you raise suspicion."
Win and you raise suspicion.
"In practice, free software is controlled by a technocratic elite."
There was a time when *all* culture was in the hands of a technocratic elite. Then society moved on and massively learnt to read write.
Programing is basically applying your rational skills and describe them in a formal language. It can be done by the masses if deemed important enough.
"Which doesn't help if the Service is a social network whose value lies in allowing users to communicate with other users of the same Service."
Which is also a point covered by RMS: an enlighted society, one where education on free software and why it's important won't be wanting to exchange their privacy and freedom for some puppies' videos.
"But, how does that stop them (the guys running the servers) having access to all of your information you have stored on their machines?"
So exactly making the second RMS' point: beware service as a software substitute.
"Selfishness, for Rand, means making oneself the best person possible: wise, productive, sober, truthful, knowledgeable, etc.."
Usually, the one that first come to an idea is the one that gains the privilege to put a name to it. That's not "selfinesh", that's Plato's enlighted philosopher.
"The rewards for selfishness include monetary compensation and pride."
If she really said that, she was perfectly stupid, full stop.
For this to work, your fellows have to be enlighted philosophers too and, if that's the case, say, communism offers the same results with much less fanfarre.
"Banks can't force you to take a mortgage against your will."
Do you imply that lenders can force the bank to offer the mortage, then? Yeah, so I thought.
"You are the only person to decide whether you want to take out a mortgage"
And the bank is the only entity to decide whether they want to sign off a mortage.
"When it comes to mortgages, the borrower is in complete control."
So you mean they can get a mortage even if the bank doesn't want to? Yeah, so I thought.
"Home owners have perfect information"
They can produce an exact calculation of their financial risk because they have access to statistical analysis of the market -both the borrowers and the real state, they can analyse the economic and labour trends, etc. Much better than Fannie Mae et al. Yeah, sure.
"Part of the problem with the crisis was that lenders didn't get that information"
They didn't have access to lenders' credit record, job status, other financial loads... oh, wait!