Hitler and Stalin were both supported by the majority - and they were still dictators.
Hitler never got more than about 35% of the vote in free elections.
However, the last time the party that got into power in the UK got most of the votes cast was in the 70's, IIRC. Most people have voted for someone else in every election since, until the recent coalition (if you include both Tory and LibDem votes as a block).
Almost one fifth of people in Turkey live in Istanbul alone. I haven't had an in depth look at Turkish demographics, but this I find unbelievable on a whole load of levels : "Rural areas are not really developed, thickly populated and essentially exist in conditions that modern urban dweller would find atrocious, similar to those found in early 1900s. But to them, that is normal existence and all they know. Also to them islam is the way of life, like christianity was a way of life to farmers of late early 1900s in USA. These people will vote for islamic parties and they are in a clear majority in Turkey."
One of the heroes of Turkey is Ataturk, whose reforms have a very pro-secular basis.
Personally, I think most of those driving the resurgence of Islamic government in Turkey are similar to those pushing for the same in Western countries - middle or wealthy class, educated people.
Edit buttons don't work with moderation. If you reply to something stupid, then the original person edits out the stupid thing, your reply can become meaningless, offtopic, strawman, redundant, whatever. Lack of an edit button is a strength.
Following threads that are edited is almost impossible, too - you end up with a mishmash of unrelated comments sometimes.
Tennis appears to use purely single elimination, but they track each player's win/loss ratios against different opponents (equivalent to round-robin results) to give them a ranking, then use the ranking to seed the single elimination tournaments to make sure the top seeds do not meet each other early in the tournament.
The trouble with this approach is that it favours the incumbents. Imagine there's this amazing tennis player, who never lost a match... he'd get seeded number one. Two youngsters eventually manage to get better than him, and get to 2 and 3 in the world, no one else is close. Each youngster has a 60% chance to beat the number 1, and a 50/50 chance against each other.
With the current tennis seedings, the youngsters will get put in the same half of the draw and meet in the semi-final every time. The youngsters each have a 50% chance to lose in the semi-final, a 20% chance to lose in the final, and a 30% chance to win in the final. The number 1 has a 50% chance to lose in the final, and a 50% chance to win. Therefore the number 1 player maintains his number 1 ranking despite being worse than both the youngsters.
The example here is simplistic, but I believe it demonstrates the overall problem of seeding.
I have never used a single AMD system and see no reason to believe that they will ever make anything that would change my mind.
So... you'd continue to buy Intel even if someone else made a better processor? A few years back, AMD did have better processors... better in both performance/price and performance/watt. I had one, and it was a great PC which I ran for 7 years or so... now I'm back with Intel. I really don't understand blind brand loyalty.
I don't really begrudge any slack jawed gamers their massive nuclear power plant busting AMD systems with the absurd overkill of space heater SLI graphics; it's just not anything that has the slightest relevance to anything I could ever care about.
High end gaming systems are almost invariably Intel based at the moment, because they are the quickest processors on the market at the moment. Low / mid gaming systems are more often AMD, because they offer as good or better performance / price. Lower end gaming systems are unlikely to run SLI configurations.
The slack jaw gamers you're spouting drivel about (all the time claiming you don't care about) don't exist.... if they do, they run Intel.
Don't make the mistake of thinking that people that believe either ID or associated beliefs must be stupid.
I don't. I never have. I'm a flirting Christian in that I love some of the tenets of the religion (I don't believe in god yet... that is a small drawback). It's just nothing to do with the scientific method. ID ascribes something to something that by definition cannot be proven or disproven, A book I love to illustrate my views is A J Ayers' "Language, Truth and Logic".
Android is a platform built for the pleasure of the technical elite, with a promise to non-technical users of being their gateway into the new world of mobile computing. But that is a lie; it's simply a PC you can put in your pocket that brings along for the ride every ill ever conceived of on a PC and more besides.
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Android is in what way a platform for the technical elite? It is outselling Apple's offerings 4:1. It is easy for people to install what they like on it... that's the attraction, not a disadvantage.
Android has both a large user base of generally satisfied customers and more freedom for those customers. Apple has a tiny market share by comparison, and locks customers into its own software. Claiming that android is for the technical elite is like claiming donuts are for the culinary elite.
I still think it's crazy that you have to pay to receive messages in some countries.
In the UK, the mobile companies just charge absolutely stupid amounts to the people calling them. It's much, much cheaper to phone anywhere in the world on a landline than it is to phone a mobile 10 yards away from you (unless you have a "special deal"). That's how they make their money.
It's the biggest scam of all time - just let the landline customers pick up the tab...
Well it's not difficult to type "make" as a normal user then test and when fully satisfied that the application works properly type "make install" as the system admin. But this means using the "command line" or a developer GUI which basically allows the developer to develop and maintain the application. However the average person does not know what the "command line" or even what a development GUI is or if they do think their brains will explode if they attempt it:)
You're missing the point. Even if users could be trained to compile their own utilities, it would not have an effect. No one actually knows the codebase they compile, 99.9% of the time. Even if all users automagically compiled everything they used, it would make no difference, since they'd still be downloading crap from the same crap websites.
It's been knocked down now - there was no planning permission for the house, and they could not find someone who would pay 50,000 pounds to get it anywhere.
Seems a shame, really... you'd have thought some rich bastard would have taken it.
Ever notice how African-American males are often muscular, large boned with large lips, and African-American females tend to have wide hips (thought to be better for childbearing)? This was due to forced mating under American slavery, where (unfortunately) slaves were force-bred to reinforce traits desirable for both hard manual labor and for producing more slaves. Compare an "African-American" to recent immigrants from Africa. Note post-slavery immigrants by and large lack those traits.
You know... most western Africans share those traits too. It's not because of slavery. I'd like to see any study showing significant differences between african americans and the population they came from (which cannot be explained by interbreeding with white & indigenous people).
Why are we even talking about ID and creationism in this discussion? How has spirituality got dragged into this scientific topic? We could discuss how there's the possibility of some kind of learning, and behaviour transferal, but no.... we've got to bring up ID.
Fed up with ID BS.... bored of it. It was funny for a while.
Let me ask again: bio or organic food is tainted with the same herbizides/fungizides or other *zides as "ordinary" food?
They're not "tainted" with the same herbicides or fungicides.... my point was that just about every crop we grow and use has herbicides and fungicides in it - and those have been exaggerated because of our breeding of the crops. Nothing we eat is natural, unless you're a hunter gatherer.
How retarded are you?
Not retarded enough to miss someone else's point. I do buy local, and I do grow my own stuff. I occasionally use fungicides and other stuff on the crops I grow. I sell them locally. They're not organic, but they're local, and as long as you steam wash them for 2 hours prior to eating, they should be ok.
However, teabags are an abomination the world has embraced for convenience. When you drink tea with a teabag, you get some of the taste of tea, but you get all of the taste of bag.
I don't like the taste of bag. I don't want bag in my tea.
Cheap, dust grade loose leaf tea tastes 100 times better than _anything_ from a bag. Decent tea is relatively cheap too.
Real coffee aficionados say that it's not the grinding that's the problem - it's the roasting. Green, unroasted beans keep for a long time. Once you roast them, though, they're only good for a few days, whether you grind them first or later.
Personally, I'm yet to be convinced. I buy beans and grind them... but I'm pretty sure that's just because I buy beans and like grinding them (it's a good ritual). I've not noticed much difference in the taste.
You do know agriculture is a human invention, don't you? And that since the dawn of agriculture, people have been putting all kinds of shit (literally) on their food to make it grow. None of this was "natural".
Herbicides and fungicides and insecticides exist in the "organic" plants we eat. They're just ones produced by the plant. Most of our synthetic ones are basically copies of pre-existing natural defences. Sticking some of the natural world's produce into our food would go very badly for us...
You may well be able to imagine that.... but at our present technology, what you get from heating one bit more than another is one hot bit and one cold bit.
Texture is independent of heat... The use of heat in cooking will create different textures, but the texture essentially comes from the base material, although carbonised black goo you can pretty much make with any starting material - generally this is considered a mistake.
[I]n terms of content, you can say whatever you damn well please. Any government that doesn't recognize that doesn't recognize freedom of speech.
No.... no you can't. There are things like official secrets. There are things like libel (which although not criminal in itself _is_ backed up by the criminal system - if you don't pay, you go to jail).
There are things like AACS and DeCSS, which made numbers illegal. Just because people get away with it all the time, does not make it not illegal. People have been prosecuted for propagating numbers.
Fraud laws are a restriction on free speech - Fraud, almost by definition is all about speech, if it wasn't it'd be theft.
And of course, there's the big restriction on free speech : copyright.
I'm personally for some restrictions on free speech... people who claim they have absolute free speech are just wrong.
They can.... but when you've got 30,000, what's the chances just one gets hit by something and goes a little haywire.
I'm _not_ being melodramatic here.... just looking at the percentages. If it can be shown they have 0.001% odd failure rate per year (that is, not just crashing to the ground), then we'll have 30 per year doing odd failures.
The only time I connect an iOS device to my computer is when I need to update iOS itself - and, even then, it's only necessary because I jailbreak my devices. My apps, my music, and my files can all be downloaded from iCloud.
This is probably Apple's aim - the easier it is to connect to their servers, and the harder it is to connect to your computer, the better. You're almost their ideal customer.
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Hitler and Stalin were both supported by the majority - and they were still dictators.
Hitler never got more than about 35% of the vote in free elections.
However, the last time the party that got into power in the UK got most of the votes cast was in the 70's, IIRC. Most people have voted for someone else in every election since, until the recent coalition (if you include both Tory and LibDem votes as a block).
Almost one fifth of people in Turkey live in Istanbul alone. I haven't had an in depth look at Turkish demographics, but this I find unbelievable on a whole load of levels : "Rural areas are not really developed, thickly populated and essentially exist in conditions that modern urban dweller would find atrocious, similar to those found in early 1900s. But to them, that is normal existence and all they know. Also to them islam is the way of life, like christianity was a way of life to farmers of late early 1900s in USA. These people will vote for islamic parties and they are in a clear majority in Turkey."
One of the heroes of Turkey is Ataturk, whose reforms have a very pro-secular basis.
Personally, I think most of those driving the resurgence of Islamic government in Turkey are similar to those pushing for the same in Western countries - middle or wealthy class, educated people.
Edit buttons don't work with moderation. If you reply to something stupid, then the original person edits out the stupid thing, your reply can become meaningless, offtopic, strawman, redundant, whatever. Lack of an edit button is a strength.
Following threads that are edited is almost impossible, too - you end up with a mishmash of unrelated comments sometimes.
Tennis appears to use purely single elimination, but they track each player's win/loss ratios against different opponents (equivalent to round-robin results) to give them a ranking, then use the ranking to seed the single elimination tournaments to make sure the top seeds do not meet each other early in the tournament.
The trouble with this approach is that it favours the incumbents. Imagine there's this amazing tennis player, who never lost a match... he'd get seeded number one. Two youngsters eventually manage to get better than him, and get to 2 and 3 in the world, no one else is close. Each youngster has a 60% chance to beat the number 1, and a 50/50 chance against each other.
With the current tennis seedings, the youngsters will get put in the same half of the draw and meet in the semi-final every time. The youngsters each have a 50% chance to lose in the semi-final, a 20% chance to lose in the final, and a 30% chance to win in the final. The number 1 has a 50% chance to lose in the final, and a 50% chance to win. Therefore the number 1 player maintains his number 1 ranking despite being worse than both the youngsters.
The example here is simplistic, but I believe it demonstrates the overall problem of seeding.
I haven't got a decent solution yet, though ;)
I have never used a single AMD system and see no reason to believe that they will ever make anything that would change my mind.
So... you'd continue to buy Intel even if someone else made a better processor? A few years back, AMD did have better processors... better in both performance/price and performance/watt. I had one, and it was a great PC which I ran for 7 years or so... now I'm back with Intel. I really don't understand blind brand loyalty.
I don't really begrudge any slack jawed gamers their massive nuclear power plant busting AMD systems with the absurd overkill of space heater SLI graphics; it's just not anything that has the slightest relevance to anything I could ever care about.
High end gaming systems are almost invariably Intel based at the moment, because they are the quickest processors on the market at the moment. Low / mid gaming systems are more often AMD, because they offer as good or better performance / price. Lower end gaming systems are unlikely to run SLI configurations.
The slack jaw gamers you're spouting drivel about (all the time claiming you don't care about) don't exist.... if they do, they run Intel.
Assuming soil is half as dense than water (it was while driving, so I couldn't look it up), you get 3 tons of soil.
Why would you assume that? Here's a hint - if it sinks, it is denser than water, and if it floats, it's lighter than water.
I'd personally guess that soil's about twice a dense as water, which actually gives you 12 tonnes.
No... really, it is. When asked how tall I am, I can say, "i'm six two". Just that, 3 words.
Heh... with metric my height is 2. Incidently, it makes my BMI easy to work out, especially when I used to weigh 100kg.... 100/2^2.
Don't make the mistake of thinking that people that believe either ID or associated beliefs must be stupid.
I don't. I never have. I'm a flirting Christian in that I love some of the tenets of the religion (I don't believe in god yet... that is a small drawback). It's just nothing to do with the scientific method. ID ascribes something to something that by definition cannot be proven or disproven, A book I love to illustrate my views is A J Ayers' "Language, Truth and Logic".
Android is a platform built for the pleasure of the technical elite, with a promise to non-technical users of being their gateway into the new world of mobile computing. But that is a lie; it's simply a PC you can put in your pocket that brings along for the ride every ill ever conceived of on a PC and more besides.
This is modded interesting, here?
Android is in what way a platform for the technical elite? It is outselling Apple's offerings 4:1. It is easy for people to install what they like on it... that's the attraction, not a disadvantage.
Android has both a large user base of generally satisfied customers and more freedom for those customers. Apple has a tiny market share by comparison, and locks customers into its own software. Claiming that android is for the technical elite is like claiming donuts are for the culinary elite.
I still think it's crazy that you have to pay to receive messages in some countries.
In the UK, the mobile companies just charge absolutely stupid amounts to the people calling them. It's much, much cheaper to phone anywhere in the world on a landline than it is to phone a mobile 10 yards away from you (unless you have a "special deal"). That's how they make their money.
It's the biggest scam of all time - just let the landline customers pick up the tab...
Well it's not difficult to type "make" as a normal user then test and when fully satisfied that the application works properly type "make install" as the system admin. But this means using the "command line" or a developer GUI which basically allows the developer to develop and maintain the application. However the average person does not know what the "command line" or even what a development GUI is or if they do think their brains will explode if they attempt it :)
You're missing the point. Even if users could be trained to compile their own utilities, it would not have an effect. No one actually knows the codebase they compile, 99.9% of the time. Even if all users automagically compiled everything they used, it would make no difference, since they'd still be downloading crap from the same crap websites.
It's been knocked down now - there was no planning permission for the house, and they could not find someone who would pay 50,000 pounds to get it anywhere.
Seems a shame, really... you'd have thought some rich bastard would have taken it.
Weighs 45,979.61 pounds (including bricks and steel infrastructure)
I don't think glue would cut it with something this size, and the loads it needs.
Ever notice how African-American males are often muscular, large boned with large lips, and African-American females tend to have wide hips (thought to be better for childbearing)? This was due to forced mating under American slavery, where (unfortunately) slaves were force-bred to reinforce traits desirable for both hard manual labor and for producing more slaves. Compare an "African-American" to recent immigrants from Africa. Note post-slavery immigrants by and large lack those traits.
You know... most western Africans share those traits too. It's not because of slavery. I'd like to see any study showing significant differences between african americans and the population they came from (which cannot be explained by interbreeding with white & indigenous people).
Why are we even talking about ID and creationism in this discussion? How has spirituality got dragged into this scientific topic? We could discuss how there's the possibility of some kind of learning, and behaviour transferal, but no.... we've got to bring up ID.
Fed up with ID BS.... bored of it. It was funny for a while.
Just look at all the pressure we are getting on Syria.
No one is putting pressure on the US to "do something" in Syria. No one.
The pressure is internal - It's propaganda. No one wants a US military invasion. There is no pressure.
Let me ask again: bio or organic food is tainted with the same herbizides/fungizides or other *zides as "ordinary" food?
They're not "tainted" with the same herbicides or fungicides.... my point was that just about every crop we grow and use has herbicides and fungicides in it - and those have been exaggerated because of our breeding of the crops. Nothing we eat is natural, unless you're a hunter gatherer.
How retarded are you?
Not retarded enough to miss someone else's point. I do buy local, and I do grow my own stuff. I occasionally use fungicides and other stuff on the crops I grow. I sell them locally. They're not organic, but they're local, and as long as you steam wash them for 2 hours prior to eating, they should be ok.
I'm not the OP, nor am I a coffee snob...
However, teabags are an abomination the world has embraced for convenience. When you drink tea with a teabag, you get some of the taste of tea, but you get all of the taste of bag.
I don't like the taste of bag. I don't want bag in my tea.
Cheap, dust grade loose leaf tea tastes 100 times better than _anything_ from a bag. Decent tea is relatively cheap too.
Ok, rant over....
Real coffee aficionados say that it's not the grinding that's the problem - it's the roasting. Green, unroasted beans keep for a long time. Once you roast them, though, they're only good for a few days, whether you grind them first or later.
Personally, I'm yet to be convinced. I buy beans and grind them... but I'm pretty sure that's just because I buy beans and like grinding them (it's a good ritual). I've not noticed much difference in the taste.
You do know agriculture is a human invention, don't you? And that since the dawn of agriculture, people have been putting all kinds of shit (literally) on their food to make it grow. None of this was "natural".
Herbicides and fungicides and insecticides exist in the "organic" plants we eat. They're just ones produced by the plant. Most of our synthetic ones are basically copies of pre-existing natural defences. Sticking some of the natural world's produce into our food would go very badly for us...
You may well be able to imagine that.... but at our present technology, what you get from heating one bit more than another is one hot bit and one cold bit.
Texture is independent of heat... The use of heat in cooking will create different textures, but the texture essentially comes from the base material, although carbonised black goo you can pretty much make with any starting material - generally this is considered a mistake.
[I]n terms of content, you can say whatever you damn well please. Any government that doesn't recognize that doesn't recognize freedom of speech.
No.... no you can't. There are things like official secrets. There are things like libel (which although not criminal in itself _is_ backed up by the criminal system - if you don't pay, you go to jail).
There are things like AACS and DeCSS, which made numbers illegal. Just because people get away with it all the time, does not make it not illegal. People have been prosecuted for propagating numbers.
Fraud laws are a restriction on free speech - Fraud, almost by definition is all about speech, if it wasn't it'd be theft.
And of course, there's the big restriction on free speech : copyright.
I'm personally for some restrictions on free speech... people who claim they have absolute free speech are just wrong.
They can.... but when you've got 30,000, what's the chances just one gets hit by something and goes a little haywire.
I'm _not_ being melodramatic here.... just looking at the percentages. If it can be shown they have 0.001% odd failure rate per year (that is, not just crashing to the ground), then we'll have 30 per year doing odd failures.
The only time I connect an iOS device to my computer is when I need to update iOS itself - and, even then, it's only necessary because I jailbreak my devices. My apps, my music, and my files can all be downloaded from iCloud.
This is probably Apple's aim - the easier it is to connect to their servers, and the harder it is to connect to your computer, the better. You're almost their ideal customer.
Do you want us to police the world or not?
Not. Please.
Seriously, do you and other people in the US really think they're the world's police, the last bastion for freedom, etc? Is this a common mentality?