That was my first thought after I posted the comment too. I wish I could remember where I first heard that story. I want to say it was during a tour at the Palomar Mountain Observatory, but I'm probably mixing memories. It's only in the last five or six years that I've realized how many people know it, and how common a comment it is.
My point was that "Developed" in 1991 meant no internet at all, nevermind faster-than-56k modems. Invoking the USSR as if it was relevant to the discussion 20 years later, and throwing in a cheap "Amerikuns urr dum" jab while you were at it makes you look like a twat with an axe to grind. That or a moron. Why not point out that Genghis Khan's empire was run by a FANTASTIC bureaucracy as evidence that Kazakhstan today is every bit as well-run a country as Western Europe and East Asia, if not better than them? It'd be about as relevant.
Alright, now that I've stopped laughing and have picked my eyeballs up off the floor:
Do you mean to imply that the Imperial Might of the Soviet Regime widely distributed faster-than-56k modems throughout its lands prior to its ignominious collapse in 1991?
Or are you just a twat with an irrelevant axe to grind?
I think the good folks at the OED would take issue with your description. The OED is NOT definitive. It is documentative. They do not define words; they document how words are used. There is a BIG difference (at least in terms of operational philosophy and epistemological underpinnings)/rantonlyalinguistcouldlove
That already failed Rome. You'd just have a slightly larger, but still constant and unchanging, group playing musical chairs with the seats. Instead of 500 reps who never change, you'd have 1000 reps who take turns swapping between Congress and other elected posts (state legislatures, state governors, district judges, the presidency).
Linguists hate it because in its strongest sense it is trivially false (people can obviously think about things they don't have preexisting symbols for), and in it's weakest sense it is trivially true (connotations of words and grammatical assumptions do influence how people think about things). In other words, it's not a particularly useful or explanatory concept. It's either a statement of the obvious, or just wrong, depending on how strongly you state the case.
We shall see to what extent this continues now that Jobs is dead. My advice is to short Apple circa next August (or whenever is just before they announce their next Holiday lineup).
To be fair, why the fuck does the usb cable look the same? Granted, bitching about icons with rounded corners is stupid (in Steve Jobs's own words "they're everywhere"), but the usb cable is awfully specific.
I was rooting for Samsung (and I love my Galaxy S), but why in the the hell did they make the usb connector look the same on the Tab? The Galaxy S has a standard Micro-USB (same as my Kindle, which is nice since it cuts down on cables I need to carry).
Yes, the latter has been successful. So are high heeled shoes, which fail every objective test for the usefulness of a shoe. Just saying.
I can think of at least two objective tests for the usefulness of a shoe (and one arguably subjective, but nonetheless statistically objective within the target market).
1) Certain kinds of dance which require closing the height gap (Tango comes to mind in particular) 2) Putting a woman at eye-to-eye level with the person she's talking to and, the arguable one, 3) Making a woman's legs look longer/more graceful.
Just because I, with my testicles and all, wouldn't use them, doesn't mean they have zero usefulness (though I do feel sorry for my tango partner who pretty much has to wear them for the dance to work).
If all these disaffected nonvoting people would actually get together and support their own person, they could possibly win, provided they're as big a group as they think they are. If not, well, the small fringe minority rarely wins elections without extreme manipulations of PR - see the GOP in the last couple of decades as a point of reference.
Yes, they could win. I'm not contesting that. I'm saying it's irrelevant.
It does not matter who is elected. I don't mean the Democrats and Republicans are the same. I mean it DOES NOT MATTER who is elected because the problem is structural. No matter who you elect, the problem persists.
You think I don't understand your point. I do. But you're not even wrong.
People do not behave the way they do because of who they are. They behave the way they do because of WHERE they are. There is plenty of data backing this up over decades of research. So long as the rules and benefits of the political system remain in place, WHOEVER is elected will become corrupt. The only way to change this is to change the rules and incentives. Which was the very point that seems to be out of your reach.
But keep tilting at those strawmen, and thinking that if you just vote for the right person it will actually matter.
You make the mistake of thinking users are their customers. They don't need to grow their userbase to grow their customerbase. Customerbase is what is relevant here.
If you don't like it run for office yourself herp derp derp
Really? That's your fucking solution? The problem is structural, not individual. Assassinate every member of congress today, and, no matter who replaces them, we'll have the exact same problems tomorrow.
It doesn't matter WHO is elected. We know, from actual, factual research, that situation dictates human behavior more than almost any other factor. Put new people into the same situation, and you'll get the same behavior. Voting for new people will fix nothing. Getting new people to run for office will fix nothing. Only replacing the entire system will have any effect.
I don't get this. I see people repeat this over and over, and, yet, every KDE setup I see looks essentially the same. A new color scheme does not count as fiddling.
Because GPS systems are slow and inefficient for dedicated, rapidly changing navigational tasks. I used to work pizza delivery. Half the guys at the store had GPS systems when I left. They were also the slowest delivery drivers. The guys who memorized the area (not that hard to do really), were much faster. I lost track of the number of times I was out the door, in my car, and almost around the end of the block before one of the guys who was sitting in his car keying an address when I walked out the door managed to leave the parking lot. Cab driving would be the same, only worse. Moreover, "sorry my GPS doesn't know where that is" is a pretty stupid thing for a cabby to say (and it happened a lot for our delivery drivers).
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That was my first thought after I posted the comment too. I wish I could remember where I first heard that story. I want to say it was during a tour at the Palomar Mountain Observatory, but I'm probably mixing memories. It's only in the last five or six years that I've realized how many people know it, and how common a comment it is.
Wasn't my point.
My point was that "Developed" in 1991 meant no internet at all, nevermind faster-than-56k modems. Invoking the USSR as if it was relevant to the discussion 20 years later, and throwing in a cheap "Amerikuns urr dum" jab while you were at it makes you look like a twat with an axe to grind. That or a moron. Why not point out that Genghis Khan's empire was run by a FANTASTIC bureaucracy as evidence that Kazakhstan today is every bit as well-run a country as Western Europe and East Asia, if not better than them? It'd be about as relevant.
I honestly can't tell if you're serious anymore. I'm invoking Poe's Law at this point.
BWahahahahaha.....ahahahahaha....ahahahahahaha
Alright, now that I've stopped laughing and have picked my eyeballs up off the floor:
Do you mean to imply that the Imperial Might of the Soviet Regime widely distributed faster-than-56k modems throughout its lands prior to its ignominious collapse in 1991?
Or are you just a twat with an irrelevant axe to grind?
I don't know how two assholes could even have sex. Unless they just sort of, scissored, or something
I think the good folks at the OED would take issue with your description. The OED is NOT definitive. It is documentative. They do not define words; they document how words are used. There is a BIG difference (at least in terms of operational philosophy and epistemological underpinnings) /rantonlyalinguistcouldlove
You realize that the sun doesn't actually have a surface, right? It's increasingly dense atmosphere all the way down.
Do you live in Cuba? Or a war-ravaged African country? Or bumfuck Utah?
That already failed Rome. You'd just have a slightly larger, but still constant and unchanging, group playing musical chairs with the seats. Instead of 500 reps who never change, you'd have 1000 reps who take turns swapping between Congress and other elected posts (state legislatures, state governors, district judges, the presidency).
It's Gratuitous Space Battles that has me excited.
I think he was aiming for -1 Funny.
Linguists hate it because in its strongest sense it is trivially false (people can obviously think about things they don't have preexisting symbols for), and in it's weakest sense it is trivially true (connotations of words and grammatical assumptions do influence how people think about things). In other words, it's not a particularly useful or explanatory concept. It's either a statement of the obvious, or just wrong, depending on how strongly you state the case.
I'm pretty sure the buttons actually say "Remove" which is a nifty semantic cheat around that problem.
Southern Australia?
We shall see to what extent this continues now that Jobs is dead. My advice is to short Apple circa next August (or whenever is just before they announce their next Holiday lineup).
See the link in your sig for an example.
To be fair, why the fuck does the usb cable look the same? Granted, bitching about icons with rounded corners is stupid (in Steve Jobs's own words "they're everywhere"), but the usb cable is awfully specific.
I was rooting for Samsung (and I love my Galaxy S), but why in the the hell did they make the usb connector look the same on the Tab? The Galaxy S has a standard Micro-USB (same as my Kindle, which is nice since it cuts down on cables I need to carry).
Yes, the latter has been successful. So are high heeled shoes, which fail every objective test for the usefulness of a shoe. Just saying.
I can think of at least two objective tests for the usefulness of a shoe (and one arguably subjective, but nonetheless statistically objective within the target market).
1) Certain kinds of dance which require closing the height gap (Tango comes to mind in particular)
2) Putting a woman at eye-to-eye level with the person she's talking to
and, the arguable one,
3) Making a woman's legs look longer/more graceful.
Just because I, with my testicles and all, wouldn't use them, doesn't mean they have zero usefulness (though I do feel sorry for my tango partner who pretty much has to wear them for the dance to work).
If all these disaffected nonvoting people would actually get together and support their own person, they could possibly win, provided they're as big a group as they think they are. If not, well, the small fringe minority rarely wins elections without extreme manipulations of PR - see the GOP in the last couple of decades as a point of reference.
Yes, they could win. I'm not contesting that. I'm saying it's irrelevant.
It does not matter who is elected. I don't mean the Democrats and Republicans are the same. I mean it DOES NOT MATTER who is elected because the problem is structural. No matter who you elect, the problem persists.
You think I don't understand your point. I do. But you're not even wrong.
People do not behave the way they do because of who they are. They behave the way they do because of WHERE they are. There is plenty of data backing this up over decades of research. So long as the rules and benefits of the political system remain in place, WHOEVER is elected will become corrupt. The only way to change this is to change the rules and incentives. Which was the very point that seems to be out of your reach.
But keep tilting at those strawmen, and thinking that if you just vote for the right person it will actually matter.
You make the mistake of thinking users are their customers. They don't need to grow their userbase to grow their customerbase. Customerbase is what is relevant here.
Sure, it's far-fetched, but not outside the realm of possibility.
You sound like those people who think crystal energy is realize because of the quantums when you say stuff like this.
Here's a hint: If you know this little about a technical topic, don't pretend you have any idea what is, or is not, in the realm of possibility.
This is an all too common moronic point of view.
If you don't like it run for office yourself herp derp derp
Really? That's your fucking solution? The problem is structural, not individual. Assassinate every member of congress today, and, no matter who replaces them, we'll have the exact same problems tomorrow.
It doesn't matter WHO is elected. We know, from actual, factual research, that situation dictates human behavior more than almost any other factor. Put new people into the same situation, and you'll get the same behavior. Voting for new people will fix nothing. Getting new people to run for office will fix nothing. Only replacing the entire system will have any effect.
I don't get this. I see people repeat this over and over, and, yet, every KDE setup I see looks essentially the same. A new color scheme does not count as fiddling.
Pass the crack pipe bro.
Because GPS systems are slow and inefficient for dedicated, rapidly changing navigational tasks. I used to work pizza delivery. Half the guys at the store had GPS systems when I left. They were also the slowest delivery drivers. The guys who memorized the area (not that hard to do really), were much faster. I lost track of the number of times I was out the door, in my car, and almost around the end of the block before one of the guys who was sitting in his car keying an address when I walked out the door managed to leave the parking lot. Cab driving would be the same, only worse. Moreover, "sorry my GPS doesn't know where that is" is a pretty stupid thing for a cabby to say (and it happened a lot for our delivery drivers).
Why not? Let each state handle it's own rules and regulations for aviation and communication. Each country does this already anyway.