it is time we alter the perception of artists and creators of art and entertainment. less as celebrities and stars who needs to live a larger than life, and more as individuals who express themselves and connect with rest better than most of us. with effective disregard of copyright laws ( in spite of moronic attempts to expand and extend them on the part of establishment), and balkanization of what were called markets or audience according to niche tastes, they will get paid less as time goes on. they will have to live like rest of us. whatever influence and power they will have, will be a purely a function of their effectiveness in expression and connecting with others, not on their hyped success or antics.
all in all this is a good thing imo, and takes us back to pre 19th century attitudes
how is choosing one technology over another 'luddite'? did they threaten to destroy self driving cars? if not, they are not luddites. another example of typical overpriced 'education' is usa, resulting in careless ignorant exaggerated use of words, from people, journalist and editors, whose job is to use words.
will time will come(within our and their lifetimes) when mass murderers like obama, bush, clintons,etc (criminals worse than any terrorists) will be made to taste their own painful bloody methods. i hope so!
i did look it up myself, and find that there are too many similarities than differences between pneumatic tubes and so called hyperloop. differences you mention are actually not fundamental differences, since each method you mention can and are being used for different versions of each.
what is relationship of these to pneumatic tubes ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... is this a second coming? if so, have they overcome whatever problems they had, that made them go out of fashion after fairly wide use at one time.
you can't have it both ways. if one believes in democracy one must make a choice. and when all the available choices are not acceptable to one, one must engage with the process to create one acceptable. that is difficult and time consuming and might fail. but if one can't be bothered to risk that, or believes it is not worth it, and prefers an easy run away solution like 'none of the above', one is saying democracy as practiced is not worth it. in that case others who engage will make the choice for you . since you prefer to runaway.
well new management here seems still under the pay of musk, since every word, regardless of actual achievements (to be fair musk does have some), coming out of musk seems to result in a post here.
there are better ways to judge whether someone is "stupid, reactionary, dead-ender" than your mere subjective assertion. one of the best is banning of people for their words. and twitter is banning people for not being politically correct, ie not being in line with the ideology of the secular 'liberal' establishment of the west. that makes twitter certainly stupid, reactionary, dead-ender. no wonder they are heading for dustbin.
"Nutrition is a subject for which everybody should understand the basics. Unfortunately, this is hard. Not only is there a ton of conflicting research about how to properly fuel your body, there's a multi-billion-dollar industry with financial incentive to muddy the waters."
assumptions underlying above statements are flawed. each body is a highly complex system and varies from one to another. food usually consist in highly complex molecules. to simplify all that to give simple numbers that " everybody should understand" is bound to fail. and research into such complex systems are bound bound to be "conflicting".
i already said in my other comment here , before your comment was posted , "even most of atrocities of britich empire have separate well cited individual articles but they are not linked ( and prevented from linking ) by said editors to the british empire article.". and as i said, check the history page of the 'british empire' article and history of its talk page through the years . but perhaps you may prefer to live in denial. and see only the sun shining
read before replying. what part of "minimal mention " in article on british empire do you not understand? and compare that article to other articles on other horrible regimes. and why aren't links to articles on horrors( which i already pointed out do exit, before you, in my other comment here ) in main british empire article? why not link them and try to maintain that link in future? and you will see entrenched editors removing and banning linkers. check the history page of article, as i said and history of talk page too.
criminal racists do love historicism. and they love censorship. it is a crime to deliberately kill children. it is a crime to uproot whole peoples and and grab their land , it is a crime to shoot unarmed masses of people protesting their unjust treatment . it is a crime to deliberately let millions starve so that food grown in their country can be exported to feed people in uk during war. and furthermore they were crimes at the time too. those who suffered said so , so did some who committed them, and other observers. similar crimes by others at the same time are called crimes. if so why do you excuse british ? racism?
similar actions by others like ussr and china are recognized in wikipedia. so why special treatment for british empire.
british empire. destroyed whole cultures and lot was lost as result. is that a service to humanity?
nobody doubts british empire "played an enormous role in shaping the modern world". so did nazi regime, and ussr and lot of equally horrible regimes. i object to attempt at whitewashing horrors of this particular regime in wikipedia. why do you support it?
that will happen when english speaking non westerners will eventually overrule the biased westerners at wikipedia (or wikipedia will be overthrown as a default knowledge reference) but it will take years. already you will find widely different articles on same subject in different languages. and even most of atrocities of britich empire have separate well cited individual articles but they are not linked ( and prevented from linking ) by said editors to the british empire article.
in the meanwhile given the influence of wikipeda has in shaping knowledge, instead of hiding facts is corners, constant exposure of bias of entrenched editors should be an on going process. why oppose that?
wikipedia is already failing big time due to bias of entrenched editors from west. my example of choice is the article on british empire. which mentions sun always shined there, but minimal mention of brutal genocidal wars the principal means of conquest and subjugation, constant revolts and mutinies in almost every country under it and the resulting savage suppressions accompanied by large scale massacres, regular famines that killed off millions well in to 1940s, land grabs and resource exploitation on a massive scale , etc etc.
when contributers try to include some of that with cited sources (even with much milder language than i have used above ) they are regularly banned , even their talks page contribution justifying edits or proposing future edits are removed ( see history of both article and talks page).
no reasons given other than consensus not reached ( after all they cannot trash the scholarly sources ) but with even talk page censored only a western pov is allowed.
for contrast, check wikipeda on famines in 1930 in ussr and later in china, which were indeed horrible, but no more than famines in 30s and 40s in india
it isn't as if uber has invented some new technology. it's business is to break regulations and squeeze out profits by not incurring the costs others pay in following laws. this is no different from lawyers/accountants of big corps finding loopholes/book cooking methods to not pay taxes, etc etc, by all means campaign to reduce rules,regulations, and taxes(most are harmful), but presenting rule breaking as praiseworthy innovation is not the way to go about it .
whenever there are new discoveries in astronomy they are shown in artists' renderings, even when there are real images(unexciting ones it is true compared to sci-fi movie derived fake versions) i for one find it annoying and find those who engaging in that intellectually dishonest.
they are not doing great at "inventing the Next Big Thing" so far. only thing all the big techs do successfully is the one that made them big in the 1st place, all other things they (except for some that were added on the edge of their main competency. such as gmail which which was part of most of all the search engines before google as well) have been failures so far. there is some success at things they acquired fairly well developed from other startups that succeeded through community and other company(as smartphone ones) participation (eg android) .
google( and other big techs ) seems to think throwing money(= people and resources) at all kinds of frontiers ( and even non frontiers) will result in success( that will keep the company relevant) . so far it has precious little to show in way of successes. this is predictable. there many many past cases through history where successful institutions who try do things they do not know about get into all sorts of troubles. its a mind and culture thing.
google should do what it is doing well (and perhaps expand on edge of those things) . but not go after things it know nothing about as an institution . if individuals who make/made money from company want to do all that stuff, let them do that separately. through new startups.
"while it's a pain to create (much less remember) a complicated password with lots of numbers and special characters, it's nothing compared to the pain of having your online accounts compromised." one must question that assertion. are the accounts these passwords belong to really in need of security in the 1st place? are they not, most of them, throwaway accounts with not much value in them?
without some measure of value of accounts secured by the passwords identified, lists like this don't tell us much.
so called "security experts" should do more worthwhile research to find out the sort of insecure passwords used by people who want to keep some thing valuable secure.
apple is known for squeezing every last cent out of its foreign workers' veins. if forced to move to usa, would it do the same for americans? it would have work hard at it, given the lazybone habits of americans. apple is already hoodwinking american customers using hype (easy task since average american is unable and unwilling to use brains, any more than they do brawn ) by selling highly over priced average blah products as innovative, edgy, and stylish .
anyway good to see trump using hype and propaganda to beat up on apple that expert at hype and propaganda.
knowledge and education is one thing, ability to act on knowledge and wisdom is another . sort of distinction that people who write 'scifi tropes' (and those expect their realization) usually fails to make.
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it is time we alter the perception of artists and creators of art and entertainment. less as celebrities and stars who needs to live a larger than life, and more as individuals who express themselves and connect with rest better than most of us.
with effective disregard of copyright laws ( in spite of moronic attempts to expand and extend them on the part of establishment), and balkanization of what were called markets or audience according to niche tastes, they will get paid less as time goes on. they will have to live like rest of us.
whatever influence and power they will have, will be a purely a function of their effectiveness in expression and connecting with others, not on their hyped success or antics.
all in all this is a good thing imo, and takes us back to pre 19th century attitudes
how is choosing one technology over another 'luddite'?
did they threaten to destroy self driving cars? if not, they are not luddites.
another example of typical overpriced 'education' is usa, resulting in careless ignorant exaggerated use of words, from people, journalist and editors, whose job is to use words.
will time will come(within our and their lifetimes) when mass murderers like obama, bush, clintons,etc (criminals worse than any terrorists) will be made to taste their own painful bloody methods.
i hope so!
i did look it up myself, and find that there are too many similarities than differences between pneumatic tubes and so called hyperloop. differences you mention are actually not fundamental differences, since each method you mention can and are being used for different versions of each.
what is relationship of these to pneumatic tubes ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
is this a second coming? if so, have they overcome whatever problems they had, that made them go out of fashion after fairly wide use at one time.
seems editors here used all knowing edge, which explains delay in accessing to this old story.
so people working on such 'weapons' are now legitimate military targets?
you can't have it both ways.
if one believes in democracy one must make a choice. and when all the available choices are not acceptable to one, one must engage with the process to create one acceptable. that is difficult and time consuming and might fail.
but if one can't be bothered to risk that, or believes it is not worth it, and prefers an easy run away solution like 'none of the above', one is saying democracy as practiced is not worth it. in that case others who engage will make the choice for you . since you prefer to runaway.
well new management here seems still under the pay of musk, since every word, regardless of actual achievements (to be fair musk does have some), coming out of musk seems to result in a post here.
there are better ways to judge whether someone is "stupid, reactionary, dead-ender" than your mere subjective assertion.
one of the best is banning of people for their words.
and twitter is banning people for not being politically correct, ie not being in line with the ideology of the secular 'liberal' establishment of the west. that makes twitter certainly stupid, reactionary, dead-ender. no wonder they are heading for dustbin.
"Nutrition is a subject for which everybody should understand the basics. Unfortunately, this is hard. Not only is there a ton of conflicting research about how to properly fuel your body, there's a multi-billion-dollar industry with financial incentive to muddy the waters."
assumptions underlying above statements are flawed.
each body is a highly complex system and varies from one to another. food usually consist in highly complex molecules. to simplify all that to give simple numbers that " everybody should understand" is bound to fail. and research into such complex systems are bound bound to be "conflicting".
path of simplification here is wrong.
but to be fair, by asking for grants from same entity, one must realize, one is selling oneself to it, more or less.
i already said in my other comment here , before your comment was posted ,
"even most of atrocities of britich empire have separate well cited individual articles but they are not linked ( and prevented from linking ) by said editors to the british empire article.".
and as i said, check the history page of the 'british empire' article and history of its talk page through the years . but perhaps you may prefer to live in denial. and see only the sun shining
read before replying.
what part of "minimal mention " in article on british empire do you not understand? and compare that article to other articles on other horrible regimes.
and why aren't links to articles on horrors( which i already pointed out do exit, before you, in my other comment here ) in main british empire article?
why not link them and try to maintain that link in future? and you will see entrenched editors removing and banning linkers. check the history page of article, as i said and history of talk page too.
face facts !
criminal racists do love historicism. and they love censorship.
it is a crime to deliberately kill children. it is a crime to uproot whole peoples and and grab their land , it is a crime to shoot unarmed masses of people protesting their unjust treatment . it is a crime to deliberately let millions starve so that food grown in their country can be exported to feed people in uk during war.
and furthermore they were crimes at the time too. those who suffered said so , so did some who committed them, and other observers.
similar crimes by others at the same time are called crimes. if so why do you excuse british ? racism?
similar actions by others like ussr and china are recognized in wikipedia. so why special treatment for british empire.
british empire. destroyed whole cultures and lot was lost as result. is that a service to humanity?
nobody doubts british empire "played an enormous role in shaping the modern world". so did nazi regime, and ussr and lot of equally horrible regimes.
i object to attempt at whitewashing horrors of this particular regime in wikipedia. why do you support it?
that will happen when english speaking non westerners will eventually overrule the biased westerners at wikipedia (or wikipedia will be overthrown as a default knowledge reference) but it will take years.
already you will find widely different articles on same subject in different languages. and even most of atrocities of britich empire have separate well cited individual articles but they are not linked ( and prevented from linking ) by said editors to the british empire article.
in the meanwhile given the influence of wikipeda has in shaping knowledge, instead of hiding facts is corners, constant exposure of bias of entrenched editors should be an on going process. why oppose that?
wikipedia is already failing big time due to bias of entrenched editors from west.
my example of choice is the article on british empire. which mentions sun always shined there, but minimal mention of brutal genocidal wars the principal means of conquest and subjugation, constant revolts and mutinies in almost every country under it and the resulting savage suppressions accompanied by large scale massacres, regular famines that killed off millions well in to 1940s, land grabs and resource exploitation on a massive scale , etc etc.
when contributers try to include some of that with cited sources (even with much milder language than i have used above ) they are regularly banned , even their talks page contribution justifying edits or proposing future edits are removed ( see history of both article and talks page).
no reasons given other than consensus not reached ( after all they cannot trash the scholarly sources ) but with even talk page censored only a western pov is allowed.
for contrast, check wikipeda on famines in 1930 in ussr and later in china, which were indeed horrible, but no more than famines in 30s and 40s in india
it isn't as if uber has invented some new technology.
it's business is to break regulations and squeeze out profits by not incurring the costs others pay in following laws.
this is no different from lawyers/accountants of big corps finding loopholes/book cooking methods to not pay taxes, etc etc,
by all means campaign to reduce rules,regulations, and taxes(most are harmful), but presenting rule breaking as praiseworthy innovation is not the way to go about it .
whenever there are new discoveries in astronomy they are shown in artists' renderings, even when there are real images(unexciting ones it is true compared to sci-fi movie derived fake versions)
i for one find it annoying and find those who engaging in that intellectually dishonest.
agree with your comment completely
they are not doing great at "inventing the Next Big Thing" so far.
only thing all the big techs do successfully is the one that made them big in the 1st place, all other things they (except for some that were added on the edge of their main competency. such as gmail which which was part of most of all the search engines before google as well) have been failures so far.
there is some success at things they acquired fairly well developed from other startups that succeeded through community and other company(as smartphone ones) participation (eg android) .
google( and other big techs ) seems to think throwing money(= people and resources) at all kinds of frontiers ( and even non frontiers) will result in success( that will keep the company relevant) . so far it has precious little to show in way of successes.
this is predictable. there many many past cases through history where successful institutions who try do things they do not know about get into all sorts of troubles. its a mind and culture thing.
google should do what it is doing well (and perhaps expand on edge of those things) . but not go after things it know nothing about as an institution .
if individuals who make/made money from company want to do all that stuff, let them do that separately. through new startups.
"while it's a pain to create (much less remember) a complicated password with lots of numbers and special characters, it's nothing compared to the pain of having your online accounts compromised."
one must question that assertion.
are the accounts these passwords belong to really in need of security in the 1st place? are they not, most of them, throwaway accounts with not much value in them?
without some measure of value of accounts secured by the passwords identified, lists like this don't tell us much.
so called "security experts" should do more worthwhile research to find out the sort of insecure passwords used by people who want to keep some thing valuable secure.
apple is known for squeezing every last cent out of its foreign workers' veins. if forced to move to usa, would it do the same for americans? it would have work hard at it, given the lazybone habits of americans.
apple is already hoodwinking american customers using hype (easy task since average american is unable and unwilling to use brains, any more than they do brawn ) by selling highly over priced average blah products as innovative, edgy, and stylish .
anyway good to see trump using hype and propaganda to beat up on apple that expert at hype and propaganda.
knowledge and education is one thing, ability to act on knowledge and wisdom is another .
sort of distinction that people who write 'scifi tropes' (and those expect their realization) usually fails to make.