Funny, that's what LGBTQ people want too, and yet there are "conservatives" who want to take away their rights.
Both sides are assholes.
LGBTQ are welcome to live their lives however they want, but that's not enough - they have garnered the political will to force their narratives elsewhere. You might sexually identify as a bio-organic apache attack helicopter, but I don't need to participate in your self image........unless you're LGBTQ. Then its mandated. Where's the straight, heterosexual celebration parades? We need some equality.
People who dismiss religion so easily display a total lack of discernment and intelligence. If you took 10 minutes to think about philosophy (translated: the love of knowledge) you'd stumble upon the fact that the universe was clearly created. After that you're automatically a theist and just spending your time trying to describe the Creator.
If you took another 10 minutes to think about philosophy, you'd stumble upon the "Noble Lie" - a myth propogated to promote peace or harmony. Thus religion was born - a pious fiction created to calm man's terror of the unknown, and prevent divisive clash over questions like, "What is my purpose" and "What is the meaning of life" and "Where did we come from?"
You claim that atheism is the hallmark of the uneducated - I'd claim that sweeping generalizations utilizing logical fallacies are the hallmark of the uneducated.
It was best to think about these things well before government allowed massive monopolies like this to even exist. Today, it's far too late. The cable cutters who felt they were getting ripped off with 50 channels of what they want bundled with 500 channels of shit they don't will now pay a dozen streaming providers for the 50 streaming channels of what they want bundled with 50,000 streaming channels of shit they don't. The only difference is your internet service and streaming costs will likely make cable seem like a bargain in the end.
Speak for yourself.
II'm doing more reading and playing more video games than in recent years. I've converted my library of DVDs into H.265 digital files, and we have plenty of entertainment content without having to subscribe to a procession of streaming services. I'm lazy. I'm too lazy to subscribe to multiple streaming services, follow up with which one has a show I might want to watch, pay multiple subscriptions...so I have a library of digital movies that have replaced my VHS and DVD physical copies, an occasional trip to the theater, an occasional pirate bay foray if my wife is desperate to see something - but other than that, alternative entertainment.
How many other people are that kind of lazy? Not willing to deal with the hassle? Switching to a different mode of entertainment?
Cable cutting isn't about cutting a cable subscription, then filling in X hours per week with alternate television programming found elsewhere. It's a viable option. Its more about cable as a failing entertainment medium - both in content and medium delivery (mounting costs and ads).
I should think a lot of people are watching less TV. Polls say the younger generations certainly are.
There is no environment cost to internet porn. People are going to watch porn. Instead of all the plastic wrap, cases, CDs, DVDs, traffic to blockbuster/other porn renting store, gasoline, emissions....now there is just streaming porn. Yes, data centers use electricity. So does everything else.
You can't bloody well note that online streaming is a win for the environment, then claim the exception is porn because people stream a *lot* of it.
Its worse than a bad title and summary - it assumes a speculative future state as current fact.
-It COULD be profitable for bitcoin miners to spend XYZ Terawatts of Electricity mining Bitcoins. -Assume XYZ Terawatts of power are currently being used to mine bitcoins. -Interchange creating something with trading something.
TRADING BITCOINS COST XYZ TERAWATTS OF POWER OMG.
Let's do that with a non-bitcoin related story.
-Actors could use their status to take unfair advantage of women. -Bill Cosby raped like 76 women. -Bill Cosby is an actor, and can equally theoretically represent any other actor.
HOLLYWOOD ACTORS ARE RAPING HUNDREDS OF WOMEN EACH!
And few would go to see the movies. One thing that keeps people coming back is they can see a star they can relate to. Stars generate press for themselves, they come with a backstory, and some with stories we'd rather not hear. However, this is what the proles see as interesting.
Easy google search if you require proof, but the gaming industry does more business and makes more money than the movie or music industry. Stars generate press for themselves, they come with a backstory....that's *also* true in the gaming industry. Mario, Samus, Master Chief, Cloud, Zelda and Link, etc.
If you can computer generate a superstar in a franchise that is virtually indistinguishable from a real person, in a franchise or industry that makes more money / has more fans / gets more attention than a movie franchise, why not? This might automate / reduce demand for real people in Hollywood, but I think the real applications are going to be in pornography and video game franchise character development.
When they can perfect this beyond faces and into contextual surroundings and bodies, along with animation...then you can do all sorts of things that have a following but push legal and ethical grey areas in erotica, create custom scenarios for people, and start exploring virtual reality in a fashion people might care about.
That statement makes no sense. He's saying his cash flow will be negative because they will be investing in new products. However, new products are not an indicator for success. Sales is!
It's nicer than saying, "We're reinvesting our earnings into the long term growth of netflix rather than pushing net cashflow that can be paid out as investor dividends because I care more about the longevity of Netflix more than your capital gains" to your shareholders.
But shareholders don't want to hear about long term growth or longevity, they want quarterly stock gains and dividends at the expense of all else - which is why our economy is so skewed.
Article, summary, and even the abstract of the study are all completely useless garbage because none of them tell us which sweeteners they actually studied.
If you were to read the abstract, you'd see that they didn't actually study any sweeteners. They collated some study results from OTHER scientists to make some sweeping generalizations without bothering to review or proof the studies they were referring to.
"METHODS We searched MEDLINE, Embase and Cochrane Library (inception to January 2016) for randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that evaluated interventions for nonnutritive sweeteners and prospective cohort studies that reported on consumption of non-nutritive sweeteners among adults and adolescents. The primary outcome was body mass index (BMI). Secondary outcomes included weight, obesity and other cardiometabolic end points."
So....they didn't do any experimentation. They researched a couple databases, collated some results, and posted a paper about it with no verification.
Evolution and global warming are real. Government isn't inherently evil. You can't always increase tax revenue by cutting taxes. The American "founding fathers" were not trying to create a "Christian nation". The Constitution does not work the way Republicans say it does. Muslims do have the right to practice their religion. There's no "historical proof" that Jesus was a real guy who was really the Messiah. The Bible doesn't say, "Poor people are just lazy. Fuck'em."
See - you went to college and learned how to set up a straw-man argument so that you can knock it down and proclaim your intellectual superiority. There are billions of dollars of student debt floating out there because the teeming masses of impressionable youth went to school and learned useless tripe like that.
That's why conservatives think colleges are bad. There are no meaningful standards. You can go to NYU and take a class on the Musical Inspiration of Madonna. You can go to Brown University and take a class on "Being Bored." You can go to UPenn and take a class called "How To Waste Time On The Internet."
And how many womens studies majors are there? Native American Studies? Black History Studies? Animal Science? Not Veterinarian work, but a more nebulous study field.
Agendas are bad - all of them. Black, white, republican, democrat - special interest groups who would benefit their own at the expense of others. Very few colleges are still about higher learning, and faculty don't have the intestinal fortitude to enforce discipline or standards.
If you RTFA, he didn't grab her leg. He came into her cabin during a company retreat while dead drunk, grabbed her legs and put them up in the air, then started grinding on her while she was on her back while she's begging him to stop. Eventually a co-worker came and rescued her, at which point she hides and sobs until she gets escorted away.
Then the CEO issues a company wide apology letter for his misbehavior while drunk during the retreat and hires a third party investigator, who determines that no wrong-doing took place.
Students with self-discipline and an interest in academic success perform better than students without self-discipline!
Here's an interesting anecdote as a West Point alumni - cadets all had computers starting in the very late 90s. In 2001, USMA switched from issuing towers to issuing laptops, which cadets took to class. The laptops took the place of hand-written notes (of which everyone was expected to keep volumes), and paper lab books (of which there were many - and costly).
They worked fine. There was also disciplinary action if caught using your laptop during class for non-class related work. Then again, West Point is extremely academically rigorous, and you get kicked out if your GPA drops too low.
Point being - half the kids in college are just there because that's what they were supposed to do next - they're not trying to better themselves, so given a chance to fuck around, they're going to entertain themselves. There's a lack of discipline. If people want to see college kids performing better at academic pursuits, then colleges are going to have to invest in some.
I drive a 2015 Nissan Leaf - the Leaf and similar EVs offered by other non-Tesla manufacturers at the time all offered ~100 mile range cars for ~$30,000.
I haven't looked at the EV market since buying mine, but Tesla is offering double the range for less money. That'll spur on the market.
My favorite part of weekends would be where I can do whatever the fuck I want, whenever the fuck I want to without worrying about a deadline. Telling people that they're spending their time in measurably non-optimal efforts is not the way to win friends and influence people.
Posted by BeauHD - what do you expect? If it isn't an anti-conservative hit piece that has nothing to do with technology, she doesn't know what to do with it.
I was absolutely shocked when I scrolled back up to the top of this irrelevant twaddle and saw that it wasn't BeauHD that posted it. She must be out in the streets protesting and didn't have a chance.
BeauHD is the chief shitposting editor on Slashdot - we've come to expect garbage puff pieces, pseudo-news, alternative science, twitter fandom, and trolling.
For US Citizens, the gravity of this situation would be translated thusly:
The House subcommittee on Civil Liberties has accepted a proposal written by the ACLU and EFF advocating End-to-End Encryption.
That's it.
It hasn't been submitted to the house as a bill, it isn't making the rounds to garner legislative support, it simply exists as a proposal, and in doing so has made the news.
What matters is the money you keep. Shopping at whole foods is like buying $350 pre distressed bluegenes. Sure some people do it because they don't care about $350, the other 99% are trying desperately to be mistaken for those that don't care about $350.
What about the people who care about $350 but don't wear blue jeans?
My own interpretation is that the POTUS is not any more immune than any other elected official, considering a Senator could be summoned for jury duty or personally sued for something, but I am no legal scholar and my opinion means jack.
Senators cannot be summoned for jury duty, but they can be sued. Serving in a full time capacity as an elected official excuses one from jury duty.
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Funny, that's what LGBTQ people want too, and yet there are "conservatives" who want to take away their rights.
Both sides are assholes.
LGBTQ are welcome to live their lives however they want, but that's not enough - they have garnered the political will to force their narratives elsewhere. You might sexually identify as a bio-organic apache attack helicopter, but I don't need to participate in your self image.... ....unless you're LGBTQ. Then its mandated. Where's the straight, heterosexual celebration parades? We need some equality.
People who dismiss religion so easily display a total lack of discernment and intelligence. If you took 10 minutes to think about philosophy (translated: the love of knowledge) you'd stumble upon the fact that the universe was clearly created. After that you're automatically a theist and just spending your time trying to describe the Creator.
If you took another 10 minutes to think about philosophy, you'd stumble upon the "Noble Lie" - a myth propogated to promote peace or harmony. Thus religion was born - a pious fiction created to calm man's terror of the unknown, and prevent divisive clash over questions like, "What is my purpose" and "What is the meaning of life" and "Where did we come from?"
You claim that atheism is the hallmark of the uneducated - I'd claim that sweeping generalizations utilizing logical fallacies are the hallmark of the uneducated.
It was best to think about these things well before government allowed massive monopolies like this to even exist. Today, it's far too late. The cable cutters who felt they were getting ripped off with 50 channels of what they want bundled with 500 channels of shit they don't will now pay a dozen streaming providers for the 50 streaming channels of what they want bundled with 50,000 streaming channels of shit they don't. The only difference is your internet service and streaming costs will likely make cable seem like a bargain in the end.
Speak for yourself.
II'm doing more reading and playing more video games than in recent years. I've converted my library of DVDs into H.265 digital files, and we have plenty of entertainment content without having to subscribe to a procession of streaming services. I'm lazy. I'm too lazy to subscribe to multiple streaming services, follow up with which one has a show I might want to watch, pay multiple subscriptions...so I have a library of digital movies that have replaced my VHS and DVD physical copies, an occasional trip to the theater, an occasional pirate bay foray if my wife is desperate to see something - but other than that, alternative entertainment.
How many other people are that kind of lazy? Not willing to deal with the hassle? Switching to a different mode of entertainment?
Cable cutting isn't about cutting a cable subscription, then filling in X hours per week with alternate television programming found elsewhere. It's a viable option. Its more about cable as a failing entertainment medium - both in content and medium delivery (mounting costs and ads).
I should think a lot of people are watching less TV. Polls say the younger generations certainly are.
There is no environment cost to internet porn. People are going to watch porn. Instead of all the plastic wrap, cases, CDs, DVDs, traffic to blockbuster/other porn renting store, gasoline, emissions....now there is just streaming porn. Yes, data centers use electricity. So does everything else.
You can't bloody well note that online streaming is a win for the environment, then claim the exception is porn because people stream a *lot* of it.
Doing business with Oracle.
And Microsoft.
Its worse than a bad title and summary - it assumes a speculative future state as current fact.
-It COULD be profitable for bitcoin miners to spend XYZ Terawatts of Electricity mining Bitcoins.
-Assume XYZ Terawatts of power are currently being used to mine bitcoins.
-Interchange creating something with trading something.
TRADING BITCOINS COST XYZ TERAWATTS OF POWER OMG.
Let's do that with a non-bitcoin related story.
-Actors could use their status to take unfair advantage of women.
-Bill Cosby raped like 76 women.
-Bill Cosby is an actor, and can equally theoretically represent any other actor.
HOLLYWOOD ACTORS ARE RAPING HUNDREDS OF WOMEN EACH!
And few would go to see the movies. One thing that keeps people coming back is they can see a star they can relate to. Stars generate press for themselves, they come with a backstory, and some with stories we'd rather not hear. However, this is what the proles see as interesting.
Easy google search if you require proof, but the gaming industry does more business and makes more money than the movie or music industry. Stars generate press for themselves, they come with a backstory....that's *also* true in the gaming industry. Mario, Samus, Master Chief, Cloud, Zelda and Link, etc.
If you can computer generate a superstar in a franchise that is virtually indistinguishable from a real person, in a franchise or industry that makes more money / has more fans / gets more attention than a movie franchise, why not? This might automate / reduce demand for real people in Hollywood, but I think the real applications are going to be in pornography and video game franchise character development.
When they can perfect this beyond faces and into contextual surroundings and bodies, along with animation...then you can do all sorts of things that have a following but push legal and ethical grey areas in erotica, create custom scenarios for people, and start exploring virtual reality in a fashion people might care about.
Makes me want to re-read Killobyte by Piers Anthony. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
That statement makes no sense. He's saying his cash flow will be negative because they will be investing in new products. However, new products are not an indicator for success. Sales is!
It's nicer than saying, "We're reinvesting our earnings into the long term growth of netflix rather than pushing net cashflow that can be paid out as investor dividends because I care more about the longevity of Netflix more than your capital gains" to your shareholders.
But shareholders don't want to hear about long term growth or longevity, they want quarterly stock gains and dividends at the expense of all else - which is why our economy is so skewed.
Article, summary, and even the abstract of the study are all completely useless garbage because none of them tell us which sweeteners they actually studied.
If you were to read the abstract, you'd see that they didn't actually study any sweeteners. They collated some study results from OTHER scientists to make some sweeping generalizations without bothering to review or proof the studies they were referring to.
"METHODS We searched MEDLINE, Embase and Cochrane Library (inception to January 2016) for randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that evaluated interventions for nonnutritive sweeteners and prospective cohort studies that reported on consumption of non-nutritive sweeteners among adults and adolescents. The primary outcome was body mass index (BMI). Secondary outcomes included weight, obesity and other cardiometabolic end points."
So....they didn't do any experimentation. They researched a couple databases, collated some results, and posted a paper about it with no verification.
Evolution and global warming are real. Government isn't inherently evil. You can't always increase tax revenue by cutting taxes. The American "founding fathers" were not trying to create a "Christian nation". The Constitution does not work the way Republicans say it does. Muslims do have the right to practice their religion. There's no "historical proof" that Jesus was a real guy who was really the Messiah. The Bible doesn't say, "Poor people are just lazy. Fuck'em."
See - you went to college and learned how to set up a straw-man argument so that you can knock it down and proclaim your intellectual superiority. There are billions of dollars of student debt floating out there because the teeming masses of impressionable youth went to school and learned useless tripe like that.
That's why conservatives think colleges are bad. There are no meaningful standards. You can go to NYU and take a class on the Musical Inspiration of Madonna. You can go to Brown University and take a class on "Being Bored." You can go to UPenn and take a class called "How To Waste Time On The Internet."
And how many womens studies majors are there? Native American Studies? Black History Studies? Animal Science? Not Veterinarian work, but a more nebulous study field.
Agendas are bad - all of them. Black, white, republican, democrat - special interest groups who would benefit their own at the expense of others. Very few colleges are still about higher learning, and faculty don't have the intestinal fortitude to enforce discipline or standards.
If you RTFA, he didn't grab her leg. He came into her cabin during a company retreat while dead drunk, grabbed her legs and put them up in the air, then started grinding on her while she was on her back while she's begging him to stop. Eventually a co-worker came and rescued her, at which point she hides and sobs until she gets escorted away.
Then the CEO issues a company wide apology letter for his misbehavior while drunk during the retreat and hires a third party investigator, who determines that no wrong-doing took place.
Students with self-discipline and an interest in academic success perform better than students without self-discipline!
Here's an interesting anecdote as a West Point alumni - cadets all had computers starting in the very late 90s. In 2001, USMA switched from issuing towers to issuing laptops, which cadets took to class. The laptops took the place of hand-written notes (of which everyone was expected to keep volumes), and paper lab books (of which there were many - and costly).
They worked fine. There was also disciplinary action if caught using your laptop during class for non-class related work. Then again, West Point is extremely academically rigorous, and you get kicked out if your GPA drops too low.
Point being - half the kids in college are just there because that's what they were supposed to do next - they're not trying to better themselves, so given a chance to fuck around, they're going to entertain themselves. There's a lack of discipline. If people want to see college kids performing better at academic pursuits, then colleges are going to have to invest in some.
I drive a 2015 Nissan Leaf - the Leaf and similar EVs offered by other non-Tesla manufacturers at the time all offered ~100 mile range cars for ~$30,000.
I haven't looked at the EV market since buying mine, but Tesla is offering double the range for less money. That'll spur on the market.
PS, I'm about to sit my old ass in front of a T.V. and play video games all weekend.
FFXIV - so I'll do challenge logs and work towards quests and goals that can be measured.
My favorite part of weekends would be where I can do whatever the fuck I want, whenever the fuck I want to without worrying about a deadline. Telling people that they're spending their time in measurably non-optimal efforts is not the way to win friends and influence people.
Look at the top. See where it says "Posted by BeauHD?"
This is Slashdot now. Political hit pieces, celebrity gossip, and pseudo-science.
Yet again our Slashdot overlords subject us to clickbait and misleading titles.
This should read, "Twitter Theoretically Could Detect Riots Faster Than Police."
In other news, Jennifer Lawrence Could Theoretically Show Up At My Door And Demand Sex.
Posted by BeauHD - what do you expect? If it isn't an anti-conservative hit piece that has nothing to do with technology, she doesn't know what to do with it.
I was absolutely shocked when I scrolled back up to the top of this irrelevant twaddle and saw that it wasn't BeauHD that posted it. She must be out in the streets protesting and didn't have a chance.
BeauHD is the chief shitposting editor on Slashdot - we've come to expect garbage puff pieces, pseudo-news, alternative science, twitter fandom, and trolling.
You've been taken sir.
How about Marvel trying to copyright the word "SuperHero" and suing the shit out of people who referred to characters in their movies as Superheroes?
That shit swings both ways.
For US Citizens, the gravity of this situation would be translated thusly:
The House subcommittee on Civil Liberties has accepted a proposal written by the ACLU and EFF advocating End-to-End Encryption.
That's it.
It hasn't been submitted to the house as a bill, it isn't making the rounds to garner legislative support, it simply exists as a proposal, and in doing so has made the news.
had...until they went to WF.
What matters is the money you keep. Shopping at whole foods is like buying $350 pre distressed bluegenes. Sure some people do it because they don't care about $350, the other 99% are trying desperately to be mistaken for those that don't care about $350.
What about the people who care about $350 but don't wear blue jeans?
My own interpretation is that the POTUS is not any more immune than any other elected official, considering a Senator could be summoned for jury duty or personally sued for something, but I am no legal scholar and my opinion means jack.
Senators cannot be summoned for jury duty, but they can be sued. Serving in a full time capacity as an elected official excuses one from jury duty.