Yeah, it's very wise to avert teenage pregnancy by throwing people in jail. Fuck proper education. Oh I see what you did there, I'm the one who really got trolled.
Cry me a fucking river. Seriously, mod me down, but this thread is filling up with pure faggotry from people who enjoy too much looking at how superiorly smart they are and how depressed in romantic proportions they are about bullshit that hardly even affects them or anyone for that matter.
Take that copyright shit, what does it do? Oh noes, there's a thin chance you might get a fined if you distribute copyrighted works? Boo-fucking-hoo! What about anti-terror laws? Are *you* going to Gitmo because the NSA wiretaps everybody and their momma? Who is it going to affect? How long before it's overturned? Cut the fucking crap, no one's doomed. What, the government takes a few percent of your income more than you like? Big fucking deal, that's just a few percents, you won't take them to heaven, and they wouldn't change your life anyways.
What, you're sad cause some kids you never saw in some countries you've never been to before are dying? If you care so much about them join some charity or donate money, or grow some fucking balls and be a man. Everything isn't nice and shiny, but so fucking what, for every person dying there must be something like 1,000 people having great sex and 100,000 people laughing to the tears. So think about that if that makes you happy, or pop some fucking pills if you can't grow a pair and cope with reality.
Yet, that's a very convenient false dichotomy. "I'm a genius therefore my life sucks. It cannot be averted". Even if it's utter bullshit. Try "I'm smart and not satisfied with my life. BRB, using my genius to find a solution to that instead of whining and babbling about the fatalism of my situation".
You know what would be a cool? An augmented reality iPhone app for snipers that detects the source of gunfires (possibly from the data given from an already existing such system) and overlays them.
This being said, it now seems obvious that this augmented reality thing is going to get big within the next few years. Regular GPS on your phone is nice, but sometimes when you reach your destination you can't actually see where you're supposed to go. Things like AR would make it more obvious. I also can't wait the AR apps that will show people in the streets as naked, or even AR games that will take place in the outside. So it sounds to me like we'd better get used to people holding their phones in front of their face.
Haha alright, I honestly don't have much of a clue about whether or not Canada is affected, but now that I think about it there's absolutely no reason to think it is, quite on the contrary. My apologies!
What? Hysteria? In my Slashdot? Okay I think I'm going to actually get modded down for this, but seriously, while reactions on Slashdot are often hysteric (i.e. "OMG CCTVs/Internet filtering/copyright laws, futuristic dystopia here we come!"), Slashdot has a dominantly American audience (56.5% according to my stats, +9.1% if you count Canada in), and it's just American hysteria.
Just look at how people react to news in the USA, the healthcare reform is the latest and best example of American hysteria at work (but you have lots of examples since the 20th century). A fairly popular administration wants to fix a messed up healthcare system by adding options, and people go "OMG Nazi fascism they want to kill babies and grandmothers!!!". Sure, FOX News and what's left of the Republican party are helping, but the fact that what they do actually works should reveal something about the American society. Would it work in France, Germany or the Netherlands? Doubt it.
People often talk about how Americans as a whole, as a herd, are stupid. They're not directly stupid, they're just very susceptible to hysteria. I don't know where it's coming from but it's something deeply embedded in the American culture. It certainly had its fair share of participation in bringing about the prohibition, McCarthyism (what witchhunt isn't rooted in hysteria?), all sorts of reactions and attitudes during the Cold War, but more recently, the aftermath of the 9/11 (again a prime example of hysteria, and undoubtedly the main reason for the Iraqi invasion to go domestically mostly unchallenged at the time. Same thing for the boycott of France, that went something like "OMG France if you're not with us you're against us!!!"), and yes, even the global warming and creationism debate (which are practically inexistent in civilised nations that are not satellites of the USA). I cannot stress enough how big a part hysteria plays in America, this is not a new phenomenon at all, and if you're American you may not realise this but this is actually very characteristic, believe it or not but some other societies are more cool headed. Here's the good news though, you're not stupid, just hysteric, to the point of getting into stupid stuff, until a few years after the cause that triggered the hysteria is gone you realise it was stupid.
So yeah, Slashdot, its hysteric reactions and projections of doom and dystopia just reflects that.
The way Wikipedia does it now is like letting anyone add code and make a new build from the new code that serves as the "stable" build anyone uses. The planned change seems reasonable from the point of view of that analogy. The parallels between code management and wiki editing are many.
I just wanted to mention that because the biggest obstacle to new discoveries seems to be the unwillingness to question those things that we "know" to be "impossible."
Hallelujah. Some time during the 20th century (or maybe the late 19th century) we decided that we knew mostly anything about everything, and we "froze" our conception of what is possible or impossible. A great parallel and maybe one reason for that attitude is that we live in closed world that we have entirely mapped. No more "HERE BE DRAGONS" on maps, we've seen it all, there's no mystery, no Atlantis, no big cave leading to the centre of the Earth, no lost 7th continent, and so on... And I think that it's something that anyone can confirm. Deep down, you know we know mostly everything about anything. You know there's no such things as ghosts, witches, mysterious dragons, angels, giant sea serpents, mole people, space aliens roaming our atmosphere, reincarnation, because what you really think is, if any such thing really existed, we would surely know by now.
So that's a problem we now have, we tend to think that we've reached the end of things to discover, at least when it comes to what goes on on our closed world that is our planet, and therefore our conception of reality is frozen. And the real problem is, when something challenges that frozen conception of reality, we'll reject it, blindly. Airplane pilots who've seen impossible flying objects must have been confused, people who say they were abducted by aliens must be mad, children who talk about previous lives must be confabulating, people who communicate with the dead are all charlatans, and people who say they saw a mythical monster like Big Foot or the Loch Ness monster should perhaps lay off the sauce. It doesn't matter how compelling the evidence is, it doesn't matter if 1,000 people report the same thing, because we're reasonable people, and as such we all know what's possible from what's impossible, and that what's impossible is impossible, and it will never change.
Oh, so you're an average untrained man and you can't beat highly skilled and trained female athletes? Shame on you! You're a disgrace to the otherwise physically ever-superior sex.
Or maybe women aren't inherently physically inferior to us after all... Nah fuck that, you're just a disgrace.
I know what you mean, likewise, I'm 67 and recently it got increasingly hard for me to tell the difference between my slippers and my puppy. I'm afraid it's time for me to get myself new glasses. And a new puppy:-(.
Here's something that amazes me about the war on drugs. The USA learnt the hard way that prohibition couldn't work. Yet even after learning their lesson they still tried the same fucking thing over again. It's been a continuous failure for decades, but it's still going on. "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it", but everyone remembers the prohibition. Everyone knows who Al Capone is, and everyone knows who Manuel Noriega or Pablo Escobar are, yet we fail to draw the parallels.
Well the problem is that in order to do the necessary changes you need the public opinion to back you strongly, and an administration with the political capital to make that happen. So it's no wonder it didn't happen before when political campaigns made the war on drug seem like a desirable thing, but for all we know the American public opinion may be soon ready for that to happen.
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Captain Obvious got himself some mod points ;-)
Yeah, it's very wise to avert teenage pregnancy by throwing people in jail. Fuck proper education. Oh I see what you did there, I'm the one who really got trolled.
Just make the front page .txt rather than .html already.
In some places they set it to 18 just to get less teenage pregnancies. True story.
Cry me a fucking river. Seriously, mod me down, but this thread is filling up with pure faggotry from people who enjoy too much looking at how superiorly smart they are and how depressed in romantic proportions they are about bullshit that hardly even affects them or anyone for that matter.
Take that copyright shit, what does it do? Oh noes, there's a thin chance you might get a fined if you distribute copyrighted works? Boo-fucking-hoo! What about anti-terror laws? Are *you* going to Gitmo because the NSA wiretaps everybody and their momma? Who is it going to affect? How long before it's overturned? Cut the fucking crap, no one's doomed. What, the government takes a few percent of your income more than you like? Big fucking deal, that's just a few percents, you won't take them to heaven, and they wouldn't change your life anyways.
What, you're sad cause some kids you never saw in some countries you've never been to before are dying? If you care so much about them join some charity or donate money, or grow some fucking balls and be a man. Everything isn't nice and shiny, but so fucking what, for every person dying there must be something like 1,000 people having great sex and 100,000 people laughing to the tears. So think about that if that makes you happy, or pop some fucking pills if you can't grow a pair and cope with reality.
Yet, that's a very convenient false dichotomy. "I'm a genius therefore my life sucks. It cannot be averted". Even if it's utter bullshit. Try "I'm smart and not satisfied with my life. BRB, using my genius to find a solution to that instead of whining and babbling about the fatalism of my situation".
Or you can do like rock and funk bands of the 70s and do heroin.
You know what would be a cool? An augmented reality iPhone app for snipers that detects the source of gunfires (possibly from the data given from an already existing such system) and overlays them.
This being said, it now seems obvious that this augmented reality thing is going to get big within the next few years. Regular GPS on your phone is nice, but sometimes when you reach your destination you can't actually see where you're supposed to go. Things like AR would make it more obvious. I also can't wait the AR apps that will show people in the streets as naked, or even AR games that will take place in the outside. So it sounds to me like we'd better get used to people holding their phones in front of their face.
3.5% market share?!? You mean 9%, right?
Haha alright, I honestly don't have much of a clue about whether or not Canada is affected, but now that I think about it there's absolutely no reason to think it is, quite on the contrary. My apologies!
What? Hysteria? In my Slashdot? Okay I think I'm going to actually get modded down for this, but seriously, while reactions on Slashdot are often hysteric (i.e. "OMG CCTVs/Internet filtering/copyright laws, futuristic dystopia here we come!"), Slashdot has a dominantly American audience (56.5% according to my stats, +9.1% if you count Canada in), and it's just American hysteria.
Just look at how people react to news in the USA, the healthcare reform is the latest and best example of American hysteria at work (but you have lots of examples since the 20th century). A fairly popular administration wants to fix a messed up healthcare system by adding options, and people go "OMG Nazi fascism they want to kill babies and grandmothers!!!". Sure, FOX News and what's left of the Republican party are helping, but the fact that what they do actually works should reveal something about the American society. Would it work in France, Germany or the Netherlands? Doubt it.
People often talk about how Americans as a whole, as a herd, are stupid. They're not directly stupid, they're just very susceptible to hysteria. I don't know where it's coming from but it's something deeply embedded in the American culture. It certainly had its fair share of participation in bringing about the prohibition, McCarthyism (what witchhunt isn't rooted in hysteria?), all sorts of reactions and attitudes during the Cold War, but more recently, the aftermath of the 9/11 (again a prime example of hysteria, and undoubtedly the main reason for the Iraqi invasion to go domestically mostly unchallenged at the time. Same thing for the boycott of France, that went something like "OMG France if you're not with us you're against us!!!"), and yes, even the global warming and creationism debate (which are practically inexistent in civilised nations that are not satellites of the USA). I cannot stress enough how big a part hysteria plays in America, this is not a new phenomenon at all, and if you're American you may not realise this but this is actually very characteristic, believe it or not but some other societies are more cool headed. Here's the good news though, you're not stupid, just hysteric, to the point of getting into stupid stuff, until a few years after the cause that triggered the hysteria is gone you realise it was stupid.
So yeah, Slashdot, its hysteric reactions and projections of doom and dystopia just reflects that.
No offence but you're still missing the point. You're just taking my analogies and wrapping them around what you want to say, which is unrelated.
The way Wikipedia does it now is like letting anyone add code and make a new build from the new code that serves as the "stable" build anyone uses. The planned change seems reasonable from the point of view of that analogy. The parallels between code management and wiki editing are many.
You're talking about something entirely different and unrelated.
Oh crap, I should have RTFA.
I'm afraid it all falls in the "I did it for the lulz" category.
What's the T-shirt going to read? "I tried to take down The Pirate Bay and all I got was this lousy T-shirt" ?
Congratulations on missing the point!
I just wanted to mention that because the biggest obstacle to new discoveries seems to be the unwillingness to question those things that we "know" to be "impossible."
Hallelujah. Some time during the 20th century (or maybe the late 19th century) we decided that we knew mostly anything about everything, and we "froze" our conception of what is possible or impossible. A great parallel and maybe one reason for that attitude is that we live in closed world that we have entirely mapped. No more "HERE BE DRAGONS" on maps, we've seen it all, there's no mystery, no Atlantis, no big cave leading to the centre of the Earth, no lost 7th continent, and so on... And I think that it's something that anyone can confirm. Deep down, you know we know mostly everything about anything. You know there's no such things as ghosts, witches, mysterious dragons, angels, giant sea serpents, mole people, space aliens roaming our atmosphere, reincarnation, because what you really think is, if any such thing really existed, we would surely know by now.
So that's a problem we now have, we tend to think that we've reached the end of things to discover, at least when it comes to what goes on on our closed world that is our planet, and therefore our conception of reality is frozen. And the real problem is, when something challenges that frozen conception of reality, we'll reject it, blindly. Airplane pilots who've seen impossible flying objects must have been confused, people who say they were abducted by aliens must be mad, children who talk about previous lives must be confabulating, people who communicate with the dead are all charlatans, and people who say they saw a mythical monster like Big Foot or the Loch Ness monster should perhaps lay off the sauce. It doesn't matter how compelling the evidence is, it doesn't matter if 1,000 people report the same thing, because we're reasonable people, and as such we all know what's possible from what's impossible, and that what's impossible is impossible, and it will never change.
No. Nice strawman though.
More importantly, it was sarcasm.
Yeah well, I don't even know what unraveling means, I'm French, so big deal. I mean even Firefox's spell checker doesn't know it.
Oh, so you're an average untrained man and you can't beat highly skilled and trained female athletes? Shame on you! You're a disgrace to the otherwise physically ever-superior sex.
Or maybe women aren't inherently physically inferior to us after all... Nah fuck that, you're just a disgrace.
I know what you mean, likewise, I'm 67 and recently it got increasingly hard for me to tell the difference between my slippers and my puppy. I'm afraid it's time for me to get myself new glasses. And a new puppy :-(.
Here's something that amazes me about the war on drugs. The USA learnt the hard way that prohibition couldn't work. Yet even after learning their lesson they still tried the same fucking thing over again. It's been a continuous failure for decades, but it's still going on. "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it", but everyone remembers the prohibition. Everyone knows who Al Capone is, and everyone knows who Manuel Noriega or Pablo Escobar are, yet we fail to draw the parallels.
Well the problem is that in order to do the necessary changes you need the public opinion to back you strongly, and an administration with the political capital to make that happen. So it's no wonder it didn't happen before when political campaigns made the war on drug seem like a desirable thing, but for all we know the American public opinion may be soon ready for that to happen.