After WW2 they adopted a doctrine of passivity. They don't even have their own nukes. The deal is the US defends them. We are their primary military defense.
So the pundits are already saying we need to just back off and use diplomacy. Now, if NK landed an ICBM off the coast of California, would they suddenly sing a different tune?
Roughly, this is the time line I have watched unfold over my lifetime: 1. Don't worry, NK is a joke. Maintain the DMZ and they will eventually warm up to the international community and we can all hold hands. 2. The rumor that they are working on nuclear weapons is preposterous. They lack the sophistication. Maintain the status quo and eventually we will be friends. 3. Okay so they developed the atomic bomb. Don't worry, it's not like they can make more and those things are to big to put on a missile anyway. Not to mention, they lack the sophistication to even build an ICBM and always will. 4. Oh, they made a long range missile. Never mind that they flew one over Japan, it's all good! It's still not an ICBM and it's not like they have the capacity to make a bunch more and will certainly never develop a full ICBM. Besides, they will never be able to develop the h bomb they would for a nuke payload. Slap on some more sanctions, be diplomatic and before you know it we will be be great friends! 5. Oh, so now they have ICBM technology, they are still flying them right over Japan, and they have the h bomb. No worries! Slap on some more sanctions and soon enough we will all be friends! It's not like they would ever actually nuke Japan, SK, or the USA. That is just silly! Next. After NK nuked Japan, SK, and San Francisco, international confusion and military paranoia ensued. Everyone launched everything at everyone. Now there is no one left to comment.
As an aside. Despite my current ID, I have been on this site since 1997. I remember it being announced on Chip n' Dips. Looking at the comments and scoring, I am rather disgusted by the amount of SJWs that are hiding out here.
Sold if I wasn't already happy as a clam with my S8+. By the time the S10+ (or whatever it's called) comes out, I'll be in position for for the S9+. Good timing on this article. I just got back from meeting with a bunch of friends, a bunch of them I had not seen in awhile. Four of them had sprung for the new iPhone. As we got to comparing, their envy ensued. Why? This is a comment, not a review. Although they were all life long iPhone owners. Two of which claimed they had never really seen an Android before.
Thank you, I stand corrected. This is a great example of things I like about conversation here on Slashdot. Past my brief verification your correction, it appears I have some reading to do on the subject.
And this point stretches far beyond just this. Google, with their own corporate culture driven motives, is totally incompetent to focus on anything but the most absolute and fundamental core competencies of their business. This goes for everything under Alphabet. They have been doing a great job of screwing up all kinds of shit lately. They need to remember the core purposes behind their business's and stick with that. Stepping outside of these things in every direction is why I maintain they are they next business too big to fail. As they continue to try and be more than what they are, their fall will be one of those industry shaking overnight type deals. Give it till 2020, no later.
I think that's been defended enough. What should worry people is when Hitler quotes are dropped in other context. There was an Antifa rally awhile back. One of the prominent members was giving a fairly lengthy speech. And the many Antifa members who were there could not contain themselves over these great word being spoken that embodied all that they are. There was a problem. Every last bit of the speech was directly, word for word, quoted from Hitler speeches. When you are so busy looking for monsters that you find them where there are none, the real monster will sneak up and gas you.
There was such thing as a K80, but nostalgia ensues none-the-less. I'm going to have to dig up some old hardware install OS\2 Warp now, all for the joy of setting jumpers.
I am sticking with and supporting Firefox since several beta versions ago. This is a first for me in the many years since it became bloated and unusable. It's all brand new and for those complaining about plugins, complain to those who make the plug-ins in question. Question their loyalty to freedom. Or does George Soros and crew pay your bills? Is that happening here now too? There is plenty of that going on.
It was not long ago that the Mozilla foundation was demonized for supporting those bitches in Antifa. All because the lent financial support to an encrypted communications program that they just so happen to use. Wow did that ever get spun around in the most manipulative of ways. Move to make a difference or quit your bitching and go prey to Google. Sure, there are alternatives that ALL have deficiencies as a mainstream browser. Think hard about what that means as I bleed "karma" over this post.
At a particular IT job in telecom, there was this guy. Everyone knew he was as asshole. He decided to single me out and talk some serious shit. To make matters worse, he had this little group that followed him around. I came to think of them as "Mary's sheep". I was bewildered at first. I had never seen anything like this and was amazed that it was happening. On this amazement alone I let it slide and observed. However, I don't take shit from people. Further, I am violent when provoked. One day, I confronted him and his followers in the parking lot. I was surrounded by far more than enough coworkers to be fired over how that went down. But they got it. The end result was him and his merry band cowering in fear... and apologizing. Not only did it stop, his little group disbanded. He himself was later fired after going the every drawer in someone Else's desk like it was big deal, in front of about a dozen another people including a supervisor. No real point. Just my story. This was back in 2006 or so. For the record, there would have been no point in crying to management, except to make things worse.
I think the timing is about spot of for this to be forward thinking to be not too forward thinking. The new space race is on. This time it's not just governments. Commercial interests are bent on getting people off of the planet. Between low earth orbit trips and colonizing Mars, capitalism and new enabling technologies may just be what our species needs to make up for the last 50 years of not doing much and even race past where we should already be. Human space flight has always been about politics first. I am not sure that we would have yet put people in space at all, let alone on the moon if there had not been political interests. The size of a milk carton be damned. That people can come together announce this crazy idea while also be able to launch a satellite at all is remarkable. Look at how we are taking it for granted. That in itself makes it all the incredible. So when you combine the new and newly realized commercial interests in put people in space and keeping them there combined with the new political interests prompting the governments of the world to race to the moon and stake a claim while they can, we may just be seeing the beginning of humanities future in space that should have already been realized. We just might yet survive ourselves after all
I just woke up and this could have been written better. But you get the idea.
I can sympathize with that. The voracity of my reading, or sometimes lack thereof, is dependent on what's going on in my life. I've tried audio books, but for me it's just not the same. As far as audio books while commuting, that's my really loud heavy metal time.
I've already provided my most relevant post on this subject. As this discussion seems to have been derailed by people complaining it's not a poll, I'm adding a bit more for hopeful discussion. Then I'm off to reply to comments from people not complaining.
A word on literacy in the US from a limited example. A little over a year ago, I discovered over the course of a short discussion that a good friend of mine had a background in literature that was woefully lacking. A few days later I got it into my head to buy him a hard copy of Brave New World. My thinking was that while the book is intellectual, it is also fun and easy to read. I dropped by to deliver it as a random gift. After handing it over he made what I will only describe as a funny face while looking at it. He proceeded to open to a random page, glance it at and then toss it down on his coffee table proclaiming, "That is a lot of words." I later found out that instead of even trying to read it, he used it as kindling for a fire. As it turns out, he had and has yet to ever read a book in his life. This was something he eventually proclaimed with great pride.
Now, I could dissect that myself, but I would rather read other peoples comments on it especially their experiences regarding the literacy of people around them.
So yeah, I see clearly how this could have been formed as a poll. Yet here it is. As of writing this almost all of the posts modded up are complaining it's not a poll. With a whole bunch of score 2 or less making the same complaint. It's here, it's on the front page, a done deal. As such all of those complaints should be scored offtopic. Maybe by the end of the day they will. Stop being a bunch of wet blankets and have a discussion already. I gave my response plus context for discussion. With all of the heavy topics we engage in here, this should be a fun subject to discuss.
These days I suppose I manage an average 1 per month per year for the last several years. Granted, it only takes a few days to get through something sizeable. Back before 2010 for an uncertain number of years before that, probably five per month. What happened? Time and priorities. I find it exceptionally difficult to put down a book once started and when I finish one I am desperate to repeat the process. I did grow up with a large and diverse library. My dad ensured I took advantage of it. I still consider Chaucer to be punishment. I also had a set of encyclopedias which I spent a substantial amount of time with. I also had all of his college textbooks, which I still refer to. I didn't really get started on the library, encyclopedias, and textbooks until about age six. I can't tell you how much I read in my adolescence, but I can say it was an enormous amount. Right now I am about to start re-reading some Lovecraft and Kafka, just because. I also just received a copy of Fatwa that I still need to get started on.
As a consequence, I was a total abject failure for the time I spent in the public school system. The level of boredom was hellish. I suspect I was considered an idiot. By the third grade it appeared as though I had yet to master basic multiplication. I was sent to the counselors office over it. She pulled out a big stack of times table flash cards. The situation peaked my interest and I nailed them all in under a second. Confusion within the schools administration ensued, but nothing productive came of it. At age 7 I discovered that the school was required to send a student home if their body temperature was 99.1 or above. I quickly discovered biofeedback through conscious intent. Needless to say, I always had a body temperature of 99.1. Well, at least when in the nurses office.
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After WW2 they adopted a doctrine of passivity. They don't even have their own nukes. The deal is the US defends them. We are their primary military defense.
So the pundits are already saying we need to just back off and use diplomacy. Now, if NK landed an ICBM off the coast of California, would they suddenly sing a different tune?
Roughly, this is the time line I have watched unfold over my lifetime:
1. Don't worry, NK is a joke. Maintain the DMZ and they will eventually warm up to the international community and we can all hold hands.
2. The rumor that they are working on nuclear weapons is preposterous. They lack the sophistication. Maintain the status quo and eventually we will be friends.
3. Okay so they developed the atomic bomb. Don't worry, it's not like they can make more and those things are to big to put on a missile anyway. Not to mention, they lack the sophistication to even build an ICBM and always will.
4. Oh, they made a long range missile. Never mind that they flew one over Japan, it's all good! It's still not an ICBM and it's not like they have the capacity to make a bunch more and will certainly never develop a full ICBM. Besides, they will never be able to develop the h bomb they would for a nuke payload. Slap on some more sanctions, be diplomatic and before you know it we will be be great friends!
5. Oh, so now they have ICBM technology, they are still flying them right over Japan, and they have the h bomb. No worries! Slap on some more sanctions and soon enough we will all be friends! It's not like they would ever actually nuke Japan, SK, or the USA. That is just silly!
Next. After NK nuked Japan, SK, and San Francisco, international confusion and military paranoia ensued. Everyone launched everything at everyone. Now there is no one left to comment.
Although it does explain a lot.
Straight to /dev/null
As an aside. Despite my current ID, I have been on this site since 1997. I remember it being announced on Chip n' Dips. Looking at the comments and scoring, I am rather disgusted by the amount of SJWs that are hiding out here.
The world would become a better place overnight. All that organized hatred... gone in a swarm of bees.
Sold if I wasn't already happy as a clam with my S8+. By the time the S10+ (or whatever it's called) comes out, I'll be in position for for the S9+. Good timing on this article. I just got back from meeting with a bunch of friends, a bunch of them I had not seen in awhile. Four of them had sprung for the new iPhone. As we got to comparing, their envy ensued. Why? This is a comment, not a review. Although they were all life long iPhone owners. Two of which claimed they had never really seen an Android before.
For that matter the Windows Linux Subsystem is pretty slick.
Along with some salted hash browns.
He is my life coach. I light a candle before a portrait of his three times a day. He painted it himself.
"To WINE or not to WINE that is the question they proposed."
Yes, that is what the OP proposed as a topic of conversation.
Thank you, I stand corrected. This is a great example of things I like about conversation here on Slashdot. Past my brief verification your correction, it appears I have some reading to do on the subject.
And this point stretches far beyond just this. Google, with their own corporate culture driven motives, is totally incompetent to focus on anything but the most absolute and fundamental core competencies of their business. This goes for everything under Alphabet. They have been doing a great job of screwing up all kinds of shit lately. They need to remember the core purposes behind their business's and stick with that. Stepping outside of these things in every direction is why I maintain they are they next business too big to fail. As they continue to try and be more than what they are, their fall will be one of those industry shaking overnight type deals. Give it till 2020, no later.
Actually, that is not the one I was talking about. Not enough of a crowd. Anyway, go look around for yourself.
Fair call.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auYgXOHYpgQ
this is the short version, but the video is annotated. When I went looking for it, I discovered this has happened more than once.
I think that's been defended enough. What should worry people is when Hitler quotes are dropped in other context. There was an Antifa rally awhile back. One of the prominent members was giving a fairly lengthy speech. And the many Antifa members who were there could not contain themselves over these great word being spoken that embodied all that they are. There was a problem. Every last bit of the speech was directly, word for word, quoted from Hitler speeches. When you are so busy looking for monsters that you find them where there are none, the real monster will sneak up and gas you.
There was such thing as a K80, but nostalgia ensues none-the-less. I'm going to have to dig up some old hardware install OS\2 Warp now, all for the joy of setting jumpers.
And we are supposed to want this instead? If you are clueless about this post, please ignore.
Oh fuck it.
I am sticking with and supporting Firefox since several beta versions ago. This is a first for me in the many years since it became bloated and unusable. It's all brand new and for those complaining about plugins, complain to those who make the plug-ins in question. Question their loyalty to freedom. Or does George Soros and crew pay your bills? Is that happening here now too? There is plenty of that going on.
It was not long ago that the Mozilla foundation was demonized for supporting those bitches in Antifa. All because the lent financial support to an encrypted communications program that they just so happen to use. Wow did that ever get spun around in the most manipulative of ways. Move to make a difference or quit your bitching and go prey to Google. Sure, there are alternatives that ALL have deficiencies as a mainstream browser. Think hard about what that means as I bleed "karma" over this post.
At a particular IT job in telecom, there was this guy. Everyone knew he was as asshole. He decided to single me out and talk some serious shit. To make matters worse, he had this little group that followed him around. I came to think of them as "Mary's sheep". I was bewildered at first. I had never seen anything like this and was amazed that it was happening. On this amazement alone I let it slide and observed. However, I don't take shit from people. Further, I am violent when provoked. One day, I confronted him and his followers in the parking lot. I was surrounded by far more than enough coworkers to be fired over how that went down. But they got it. The end result was him and his merry band cowering in fear... and apologizing. Not only did it stop, his little group disbanded. He himself was later fired after going the every drawer in someone Else's desk like it was big deal, in front of about a dozen another people including a supervisor. No real point. Just my story. This was back in 2006 or so. For the record, there would have been no point in crying to management, except to make things worse.
I think the timing is about spot of for this to be forward thinking to be not too forward thinking. The new space race is on. This time it's not just governments. Commercial interests are bent on getting people off of the planet. Between low earth orbit trips and colonizing Mars, capitalism and new enabling technologies may just be what our species needs to make up for the last 50 years of not doing much and even race past where we should already be. Human space flight has always been about politics first. I am not sure that we would have yet put people in space at all, let alone on the moon if there had not been political interests. The size of a milk carton be damned. That people can come together announce this crazy idea while also be able to launch a satellite at all is remarkable. Look at how we are taking it for granted. That in itself makes it all the incredible. So when you combine the new and newly realized commercial interests in put people in space and keeping them there combined with the new political interests prompting the governments of the world to race to the moon and stake a claim while they can, we may just be seeing the beginning of humanities future in space that should have already been realized. We just might yet survive ourselves after all
I just woke up and this could have been written better. But you get the idea.
I can sympathize with that. The voracity of my reading, or sometimes lack thereof, is dependent on what's going on in my life. I've tried audio books, but for me it's just not the same. As far as audio books while commuting, that's my really loud heavy metal time.
i don't see why not. Care to elaborate?
I've already provided my most relevant post on this subject. As this discussion seems to have been derailed by people complaining it's not a poll, I'm adding a bit more for hopeful discussion. Then I'm off to reply to comments from people not complaining.
A word on literacy in the US from a limited example. A little over a year ago, I discovered over the course of a short discussion that a good friend of mine had a background in literature that was woefully lacking. A few days later I got it into my head to buy him a hard copy of Brave New World. My thinking was that while the book is intellectual, it is also fun and easy to read. I dropped by to deliver it as a random gift. After handing it over he made what I will only describe as a funny face while looking at it. He proceeded to open to a random page, glance it at and then toss it down on his coffee table proclaiming, "That is a lot of words." I later found out that instead of even trying to read it, he used it as kindling for a fire. As it turns out, he had and has yet to ever read a book in his life. This was something he eventually proclaimed with great pride.
Now, I could dissect that myself, but I would rather read other peoples comments on it especially their experiences regarding the literacy of people around them.
So yeah, I see clearly how this could have been formed as a poll. Yet here it is. As of writing this almost all of the posts modded up are complaining it's not a poll. With a whole bunch of score 2 or less making the same complaint. It's here, it's on the front page, a done deal. As such all of those complaints should be scored offtopic. Maybe by the end of the day they will. Stop being a bunch of wet blankets and have a discussion already. I gave my response plus context for discussion. With all of the heavy topics we engage in here, this should be a fun subject to discuss.
These days I suppose I manage an average 1 per month per year for the last several years. Granted, it only takes a few days to get through something sizeable. Back before 2010 for an uncertain number of years before that, probably five per month. What happened? Time and priorities. I find it exceptionally difficult to put down a book once started and when I finish one I am desperate to repeat the process. I did grow up with a large and diverse library. My dad ensured I took advantage of it. I still consider Chaucer to be punishment. I also had a set of encyclopedias which I spent a substantial amount of time with. I also had all of his college textbooks, which I still refer to. I didn't really get started on the library, encyclopedias, and textbooks until about age six. I can't tell you how much I read in my adolescence, but I can say it was an enormous amount. Right now I am about to start re-reading some Lovecraft and Kafka, just because. I also just received a copy of Fatwa that I still need to get started on.
As a consequence, I was a total abject failure for the time I spent in the public school system. The level of boredom was hellish. I suspect I was considered an idiot. By the third grade it appeared as though I had yet to master basic multiplication. I was sent to the counselors office over it. She pulled out a big stack of times table flash cards. The situation peaked my interest and I nailed them all in under a second. Confusion within the schools administration ensued, but nothing productive came of it. At age 7 I discovered that the school was required to send a student home if their body temperature was 99.1 or above. I quickly discovered biofeedback through conscious intent. Needless to say, I always had a body temperature of 99.1. Well, at least when in the nurses office.