I can't speak for everyone, but I don't think I would care to interact with this person. Can you compel someone to interact with another human? If my job requires me to speak with someone I detest, I can tolerate them for that sake, but otherwise I prefer to ignore those with whom I have no desire to interact.
I also imagine that for someone like him, the kind of interaction most would like to have is the type where he's left with a shank in his body. Some criminals are loathed even among others and I can't imagine him getting along with anyone else in jail. Nor would I feel good about allowing outside visitors as outside of the usual muckrakers looking to peddle sensationalism, the only people I can imagine caring to speak with this person are the types who might feel compelled to act as he did or become followers of his misguided beliefs. That leaves scarce few people to interact with Mr. Breivik, and I suspect he has little care to interact with them either. Counseling sessions with a licensed therapist may do him good insofar that he might be able to come to terms with what a horrible person he is and show some remorse for what he's done.
While officially requiring solitary confinement is something that I can agree is immoral or needlessly cruel, that does not mean that anyone is owed human interaction. If someone has become such a terrible person that the rest of the world wants nothing to do with them, that's on them.
That does raise another reason to avoid social networks: the moralist busybodies looking for something to take offense to so they can feed their own inflated egos. Whether it's an annoying Jesus-freak relative or some hashtag slacktivist, neither are worth interacting with.
Not legally in most places, which isn't a big deal if it's a box for use at home, but if you're using it for a business it opens you up to potential liability.
That aside, I recall building a hackintosh used to require fairly specific hardware, but I haven't followed those types of projects for years now. Is there generally better support for commodity hardware now or is it still a matter of carefully selecting parts to avoid strange behavior or other issues?
Further, unless you're doing it just to do it, why not just run Linux instead of OS X? Most of the people I know who either bought or were interested in a Mac Mini at any point wanted it for an HTPC or something similar. Linux has gotten good enough at that role over the years so I'm at a loss for why most people would even want to run Mac OS X on a PC outside of "because I can" reasons.
It's real, but it happened several years ago. That particular entry was only sold online through eBay, but apparently the people who had pushed for it actually bought up all of the run so it was sort of successful. Shit, I'd probably buy it if it were on the store shelves for no other reason that it makes much chuckle.
Copters were a better choice for a variety of reasons, among them that you can carry a lot of reasonably heavy ordinance as well as several passengers who can focus on firing weapons while someone else handles the flying. These are the kind of thing that looks cool on paper or sounds like it might be a good idea, but just don't work out in the real world for a variety of reasons.
Boaty McBoatface is hardly the worst that the internet could have put forward. If you don't want to accept the possibility of a silly name winning, why bother to have the poll at all?
I assume that if the study shows promise or is highly successful, the procedure and associated devices eventually go on the market and they can purchase one even if they don't get to keep the prototype.
While there are plenty of "foundations" that collect a lot of money that doesn't go to research or doing fuck all other than allowing the CEO to enrich themselves and friends, cancer research (as in scientists developing and testing methods of preventing or eliminating cancer) is pretty legitimate. It's a difficult problem to solve, but we're slowly getting there and even when we fail, we're still learning new things that might have other applications.
I also don't think the medical professionals researching a cure are sandbagging because they're worried about job security.If they find a cure for cancer, there's going to be something else that kills people that we'll try to spend money preventing instead. The last enemy to be destroyed is death and we'll never quit trying.
To be fair, if we're going to have any immigration at all in the United States, and let's be honest the country wouldn't be where it is if we didn't do this historically, bringing in the kinds of people that can get an H1B is what we should be doing. This of course does drive down demand for highly skilled workers born in the U.S., but someone can always work a job below their skill ceiling while the reverse is not true.
I'd rather bring in more H1B workers and stop immigrants who are taking many of the unskilled labor positions than the opposite. If you do that, and remove the illegal immigrants, it means more jobs for those Americans who can't work in any skilled positions. That might mean prices for some of those goods go up as employers have to pay a minimum wage, but you can't expect the market to function appropriately when there some are held to different rules than others.
In the long run I think this is a better solution as it means that the U.S. is poaching top talent from other countries. It really sucks for the countries that end up experiencing massive amounts of brain drain that prevents them from advancing economically themselves, but there's also an argument to be made that their best and most skilled workers wouldn't be as effective there as in the U.S. so whether one produces more net benefit for the world is arguable.
Either way, the H1B system needs some major overhauls. I wouldn't even mind allowing more people in so long as the companies doing so have to pay progressively higher costs as the total number of holders increase. At least that way it can respond to the market and companies will eventually find it less expensive to find more local talent or only bring in foreigners in those cases where the need is more than worth the excess expense.
Indeed. I've received a few service notices for my vehicle over the last several years where the company will fix some small problem if I bring it in to a dealership. It hasn't been anything as potentially serious as this issue, but this kind of thing happens all the time.
If anything, this makes me more likely to buy a Tesla because I know that if there is a problem, they'll take care of it.
I think it's even worse than that and the lack of give contributes to RSI injuries. I absolutely hate typing on the current crop of Apple keyboards and find that doing so for extended periods isn't good for my hands. I switched to using mechanical keyboards some years ago which are worlds better than anything else you can find in terms of how comfortable they are to use for prolonged periods. I don't know if there's been any significant study to verify that, but personally for me I've found that they're great. Strangely enough, Apple used to make a really good mechanical keyboard, but they quit doing so some time ago in order to make everything thinner, needlessly so in the case of their desktop products.
But the extent to which we commonly identify with video game characters is fairly dramatic. There's probably still people crying over Aeris.
While games, movies, or just art in general can certainly affect people strongly, I would almost think that people like that probably have some kind of emotional disorder that they need to work through as well. It's one thing to lack empathy to the degree that they turn into evil shits, but still being emotionally torn up over something that's not real doesn't sound emotionally healthy either. There was a lot of worry (perhaps overreaction) years ago over people getting sucked into online games and becoming detached from the people around (was back in the heyday of World of Warcraft) to the point that it became detrimental to their actual lives. I suspect that we might see this come back when VR starts to make a big push.
There's another guy who does something similar and has a site where he posts about custom controllers that he's built. It's honestly just interesting from an engineering/design perspective and seeing some of the different solutions that people have come up with to enable all kinds of people to play games.
That's what I was wondering. The shitstorm brewing over at Nest also makes me wonder if there's anyone in charge at Alphabet or what the hell's going on there.
Basically the people who constantly push these programs don't tend to follow the science to find the most effective ways to go about doing it so they just end up failing, wasting time and money, and alienating the people they're trying to connect with and it seems like with many they refuse to try to do anything different. It's just another case of trying to be tough on crime or ratchet up the drug laws even more because it's about appearing to do something or people simply feeding their own egotistical desire to feel like they're changing the world rather than doing something that's actually good.
They, like many others, have figured out that you don't actually have to fix anything as long as you just appear to be doing something even if that something isn't likely to work or has been shown not to work having been tried dozens of times before. It's why we still have politicians that promise to be "tough on crime" or who want to continue the failed policy that is the war on drugs.
It's not fair to place the blame solely on those companies. We're all complicit in it. I like being able to drive in my nice heated car when it's cold out or the weather is too nasty to walk to work and I don't want to stand around waiting for a bus either. I like the other nice things that I have and all of the other creature comforts that were made possible from industrialization. Modern society and all its material wealth wouldn't exist without those fossil fuels. It's not really a matter of fault and I think even the people who deny it know what they're doing. The truth is that we collectively just don't care enough to suffer the discomfort of not having that life and the only way to fix it is to make using environmentally friendly energy generation less expensive.
In that particular example yes, but many dialects of English "should of" would be considered correct. Consider the sentence "I'm a gonna ride that bike" which is valid for certain dialects of English, but wouldn't pass muster in your typical high school grammar class. If there weren't parts of different vernacular dialects that were considered wrong, they wouldn't be considered dialects at all.
The example you've used is more of a homophonic mistake than a matter of vernacular, unless someone is meaning to universally quantify only those purposes which are intensive.
Personally I wouldn't care either. I've only had something like that happen to me once, and the person doing it made it pretty easy to find out who they actually were, so it only took one email to them to get them to stop. I really only knew the person in passing so I wasn't really sure if they were a troll and I just happened to be the person to annoy that day or if I had previously said something that set them off.
However, not everyone is emotionally mature enough to handle situations like that. I imagine that if the same had happened when I was much younger, I wouldn't have taken it as well. There was also the (in)famous case where an older woman harassed a young teen girl until she eventually committed suicide.
This feature isn't something for you or I, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have a place. I don't need littering laws to keep me from throwing trash on the ground, but not everyone gets that idea apparently. On further reflection, I almost wonder if this is a feature that's less about the users and more about the admins not wanting to deal with all the petty shit that goes on between users.
The feature isn't as useful as it sounds considering that anyone can just make a new account and they've essentially circumvented any blocking. I suppose the admins can start IP banning people at that point, but any really dedicated troll is probably already using a proxy or VPN. Normally that would be where you turn matters over to police, but they tend to be horribly inept when it comes to dealing with internet crime or the troll is located in a country that doesn't give two shits about what someone in the U.S. or some other country is complaining about.
I suppose it stops the low effort trolls, and if that's 99% of the trolling on reddit it's probably sufficient, but I don't think it does much of anything for the really egregious cases.
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I can't speak for everyone, but I don't think I would care to interact with this person. Can you compel someone to interact with another human? If my job requires me to speak with someone I detest, I can tolerate them for that sake, but otherwise I prefer to ignore those with whom I have no desire to interact.
I also imagine that for someone like him, the kind of interaction most would like to have is the type where he's left with a shank in his body. Some criminals are loathed even among others and I can't imagine him getting along with anyone else in jail. Nor would I feel good about allowing outside visitors as outside of the usual muckrakers looking to peddle sensationalism, the only people I can imagine caring to speak with this person are the types who might feel compelled to act as he did or become followers of his misguided beliefs. That leaves scarce few people to interact with Mr. Breivik, and I suspect he has little care to interact with them either. Counseling sessions with a licensed therapist may do him good insofar that he might be able to come to terms with what a horrible person he is and show some remorse for what he's done.
While officially requiring solitary confinement is something that I can agree is immoral or needlessly cruel, that does not mean that anyone is owed human interaction. If someone has become such a terrible person that the rest of the world wants nothing to do with them, that's on them.
That does raise another reason to avoid social networks: the moralist busybodies looking for something to take offense to so they can feed their own inflated egos. Whether it's an annoying Jesus-freak relative or some hashtag slacktivist, neither are worth interacting with.
Not legally in most places, which isn't a big deal if it's a box for use at home, but if you're using it for a business it opens you up to potential liability.
That aside, I recall building a hackintosh used to require fairly specific hardware, but I haven't followed those types of projects for years now. Is there generally better support for commodity hardware now or is it still a matter of carefully selecting parts to avoid strange behavior or other issues?
Further, unless you're doing it just to do it, why not just run Linux instead of OS X? Most of the people I know who either bought or were interested in a Mac Mini at any point wanted it for an HTPC or something similar. Linux has gotten good enough at that role over the years so I'm at a loss for why most people would even want to run Mac OS X on a PC outside of "because I can" reasons.
It's real, but it happened several years ago. That particular entry was only sold online through eBay, but apparently the people who had pushed for it actually bought up all of the run so it was sort of successful. Shit, I'd probably buy it if it were on the store shelves for no other reason that it makes much chuckle.
Copters were a better choice for a variety of reasons, among them that you can carry a lot of reasonably heavy ordinance as well as several passengers who can focus on firing weapons while someone else handles the flying. These are the kind of thing that looks cool on paper or sounds like it might be a good idea, but just don't work out in the real world for a variety of reasons.
But sometimes the results are rather amusing.
Boaty McBoatface is hardly the worst that the internet could have put forward. If you don't want to accept the possibility of a silly name winning, why bother to have the poll at all?
I assume that if the study shows promise or is highly successful, the procedure and associated devices eventually go on the market and they can purchase one even if they don't get to keep the prototype.
While there are plenty of "foundations" that collect a lot of money that doesn't go to research or doing fuck all other than allowing the CEO to enrich themselves and friends, cancer research (as in scientists developing and testing methods of preventing or eliminating cancer) is pretty legitimate. It's a difficult problem to solve, but we're slowly getting there and even when we fail, we're still learning new things that might have other applications.
I also don't think the medical professionals researching a cure are sandbagging because they're worried about job security.If they find a cure for cancer, there's going to be something else that kills people that we'll try to spend money preventing instead. The last enemy to be destroyed is death and we'll never quit trying.
And Bernie Madoff would be the first to tell you that his investment opportunities weren't a scam.
To be fair, if we're going to have any immigration at all in the United States, and let's be honest the country wouldn't be where it is if we didn't do this historically, bringing in the kinds of people that can get an H1B is what we should be doing. This of course does drive down demand for highly skilled workers born in the U.S., but someone can always work a job below their skill ceiling while the reverse is not true.
I'd rather bring in more H1B workers and stop immigrants who are taking many of the unskilled labor positions than the opposite. If you do that, and remove the illegal immigrants, it means more jobs for those Americans who can't work in any skilled positions. That might mean prices for some of those goods go up as employers have to pay a minimum wage, but you can't expect the market to function appropriately when there some are held to different rules than others.
In the long run I think this is a better solution as it means that the U.S. is poaching top talent from other countries. It really sucks for the countries that end up experiencing massive amounts of brain drain that prevents them from advancing economically themselves, but there's also an argument to be made that their best and most skilled workers wouldn't be as effective there as in the U.S. so whether one produces more net benefit for the world is arguable.
Either way, the H1B system needs some major overhauls. I wouldn't even mind allowing more people in so long as the companies doing so have to pay progressively higher costs as the total number of holders increase. At least that way it can respond to the market and companies will eventually find it less expensive to find more local talent or only bring in foreigners in those cases where the need is more than worth the excess expense.
Indeed. I've received a few service notices for my vehicle over the last several years where the company will fix some small problem if I bring it in to a dealership. It hasn't been anything as potentially serious as this issue, but this kind of thing happens all the time.
If anything, this makes me more likely to buy a Tesla because I know that if there is a problem, they'll take care of it.
I think it's even worse than that and the lack of give contributes to RSI injuries. I absolutely hate typing on the current crop of Apple keyboards and find that doing so for extended periods isn't good for my hands. I switched to using mechanical keyboards some years ago which are worlds better than anything else you can find in terms of how comfortable they are to use for prolonged periods. I don't know if there's been any significant study to verify that, but personally for me I've found that they're great. Strangely enough, Apple used to make a really good mechanical keyboard, but they quit doing so some time ago in order to make everything thinner, needlessly so in the case of their desktop products.
He was at Apple when Jobs was there, so it wouldn't surprise me if that's where he picked it up.
But the extent to which we commonly identify with video game characters is fairly dramatic. There's probably still people crying over Aeris.
While games, movies, or just art in general can certainly affect people strongly, I would almost think that people like that probably have some kind of emotional disorder that they need to work through as well. It's one thing to lack empathy to the degree that they turn into evil shits, but still being emotionally torn up over something that's not real doesn't sound emotionally healthy either. There was a lot of worry (perhaps overreaction) years ago over people getting sucked into online games and becoming detached from the people around (was back in the heyday of World of Warcraft) to the point that it became detrimental to their actual lives. I suspect that we might see this come back when VR starts to make a big push.
There's another guy who does something similar and has a site where he posts about custom controllers that he's built. It's honestly just interesting from an engineering/design perspective and seeing some of the different solutions that people have come up with to enable all kinds of people to play games.
That's what I was wondering. The shitstorm brewing over at Nest also makes me wonder if there's anyone in charge at Alphabet or what the hell's going on there.
I think that the problem isn't that people are trying to do something to fix the issue, it's that what they're trying to do is ineffective or counter-productive (PDF warning). Alternatively here's an article that reports on the main findings of that study or incorporates data from a few others if you don't want to read ~30 pages of journal article yourself.
Basically the people who constantly push these programs don't tend to follow the science to find the most effective ways to go about doing it so they just end up failing, wasting time and money, and alienating the people they're trying to connect with and it seems like with many they refuse to try to do anything different. It's just another case of trying to be tough on crime or ratchet up the drug laws even more because it's about appearing to do something or people simply feeding their own egotistical desire to feel like they're changing the world rather than doing something that's actually good.
Sounds like the tunnel of prejudice.
They, like many others, have figured out that you don't actually have to fix anything as long as you just appear to be doing something even if that something isn't likely to work or has been shown not to work having been tried dozens of times before. It's why we still have politicians that promise to be "tough on crime" or who want to continue the failed policy that is the war on drugs.
It's not fair to place the blame solely on those companies. We're all complicit in it. I like being able to drive in my nice heated car when it's cold out or the weather is too nasty to walk to work and I don't want to stand around waiting for a bus either. I like the other nice things that I have and all of the other creature comforts that were made possible from industrialization. Modern society and all its material wealth wouldn't exist without those fossil fuels. It's not really a matter of fault and I think even the people who deny it know what they're doing. The truth is that we collectively just don't care enough to suffer the discomfort of not having that life and the only way to fix it is to make using environmentally friendly energy generation less expensive.
I guess that all the doctors are safe then.
Also the proctologists, because who really wants to deal with assholes all day?
In that particular example yes, but many dialects of English "should of" would be considered correct. Consider the sentence "I'm a gonna ride that bike" which is valid for certain dialects of English, but wouldn't pass muster in your typical high school grammar class. If there weren't parts of different vernacular dialects that were considered wrong, they wouldn't be considered dialects at all.
The example you've used is more of a homophonic mistake than a matter of vernacular, unless someone is meaning to universally quantify only those purposes which are intensive.
Personally I wouldn't care either. I've only had something like that happen to me once, and the person doing it made it pretty easy to find out who they actually were, so it only took one email to them to get them to stop. I really only knew the person in passing so I wasn't really sure if they were a troll and I just happened to be the person to annoy that day or if I had previously said something that set them off.
However, not everyone is emotionally mature enough to handle situations like that. I imagine that if the same had happened when I was much younger, I wouldn't have taken it as well. There was also the (in)famous case where an older woman harassed a young teen girl until she eventually committed suicide.
This feature isn't something for you or I, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have a place. I don't need littering laws to keep me from throwing trash on the ground, but not everyone gets that idea apparently. On further reflection, I almost wonder if this is a feature that's less about the users and more about the admins not wanting to deal with all the petty shit that goes on between users.
The feature isn't as useful as it sounds considering that anyone can just make a new account and they've essentially circumvented any blocking. I suppose the admins can start IP banning people at that point, but any really dedicated troll is probably already using a proxy or VPN. Normally that would be where you turn matters over to police, but they tend to be horribly inept when it comes to dealing with internet crime or the troll is located in a country that doesn't give two shits about what someone in the U.S. or some other country is complaining about.
I suppose it stops the low effort trolls, and if that's 99% of the trolling on reddit it's probably sufficient, but I don't think it does much of anything for the really egregious cases.
I suppose code could be considered art. After all Windows has elicited great feelings of despair and anguish from those observing it.