Of course I don't expect you to believe me. That might require you to suffer an existential crisis by this point. I've read your comment history, it's all you talk about.
As for evidence, it's extensive enough that we have the military, food and drug production companies, insurance companies, and oil companies (who were among the first to realize it) all making plans for a warmer, more hostile world and broken ecosystem. Suggesting that all of this is just part of a conspiracy by climate snake oil salesmen is the greater claim with the least support.
"If you know what's good for you, if you know that they're leftists, you won't believe anything they say any time, anywhere, about anything... So we have no the Four Corners of Deceit, and the two universes in which we live. The Universe of Lies, the Universe of Reality, and the Four Corners of Deceit: Government, academia, science, and media. Those institutions are now corrupt and exist by virtue of deceit." - Rush Limbaugh
The program must be pretty simple:
If it's said by someone belonging to the party you disagree with politically, it is a lie.
If it's said by someone belonging to the party you agree with, it is the truth.
If it's from an organization composed mostly of people who vote for the opposition party, it is a conspiracy.
If it's from an organization composed mostly of people who vote for your party, it is gospel.
If the Republican Party agreed with the scientific community from the outset... or if most climate scientists were Republican to begin with, you'd believe in global warming. Though with the new questions of conservative purity going around, I'm not sure how long the scientists in this example could be considered true Republicans...
It brings to mind the terms revolutionary and counterevolutionary... from within a Communist country. Of course, you'll never agree with a counterrevolutionary, they always lie.
What I'd like to know, is how people get sucked into that mode of thinking to begin with, because by those rules everyone inside of it had to have an open mind at one point before deciding to close it, and once inside, since you trust them emphatically, they outline the necessary coding to keep you in.
Maybe it's fear, uncertainty, doubt... tools used by cultists like The Peoples Temple (origin of the Koolaid phrase). And what does that koolaid do? It kills them. It seals their fate, just as ignoring global warming science seals ours. At least in a cult the damage stays within the compound.
"Don't look out the window at the hurricane approaching. Work to prevent anyone else from sheltering from it. We're all safe so long as you do exactly what I tell you and listen to no one else."
Even if we act and do all we can to hold back global warming trends, it'll continue for some time before it gets better. What we're trying to avoid is a mass extinction event. Warming's already happening. Only the willfully ignorant have trouble seeing that.
So who's drinking what? Who's the suicide cult here?
Although unlikely, It would be interesting if they all came to Arkansas. The states population is about 3 million, that "drop in the bucket" would completely change the nature of it... probably for the better.
There are wasted hours on occasion yes, but the trick is to not fix your relative's (often shitty) computers. I make it a point not to, and my parents are pretty good with their own machines these days anyway.
My poor aunt though, she can never remember her password. She's always asking for help recovering it. So I finally told her, "I don't have the magic solution to that, but I can tell you what I did to figure it out the last time it happened." There's a tool you can use for Windows XP that'll reset passwords, but I don't think it works on newer systems so I'd start at square one. If I'm to start from Google, why can't she?
Look here, my pacemaker can play an obviously pirated copy of Super Mario by streaming RF radiation directly into my TV antennae. Downside: it requires me to play non-stop to stay alive. In hindsight, perhaps I shouldn't have bought it at that mall kiosk... the surgery was free though, so it was hard to say no.
The explosion stops to properly hang up the receiver before expanding further. Bomb makers initially had some difficulty getting the plasma to work with smartphone touch screens, but they figured it out years ago and the technology has been wide spread for some time.
That's basically the same everywhere, but some places are worse than others. The US is good at making sure there's a legal framework for a lot of this crap. It does nominally restrict what they can get away with. If you stick to the letter of the law, and they fail to, you will eventually win (after much suffering). Many other places are notoriously bad about it, willfully breaking their own laws and often just erasing you.
My school has that, but first year students have to live in the crusty old dorms built in the 1970s. Genders are separated, and multiple people sleep in the same room on bunks. When people think of dorms, they think of that. Not the new thing you describe.
And yeah, I'll agree with you, it sucks - they charge per student, rather than per unit. So at the new buildings you're paying something like $800 a month for a bedroom, and so is everyone else in that apartment. In a 4 (cramped) bedroom apartment they're netting $3200 a month from those suckers.
In the end, doxing is a tactic that the powerless can effectively use against the powerful.
...Or keep the powerless in their place.
We have secrets and embarrassing things on Facebook and other places online that will never go away and can be found if you look hard enough. Most of us don't have the luxury of being groomed from birth to be politicians and avoid these pitfalls.
I don't like it, but honestly I feel like they should be able to say what they want so long as they don't get in my face about it. Most people are jerks anyway, so it makes sense that Yik Yak would be used to release all that pent up jerk-steam anonymously. Being a gentlemen in public, but a racist backwoods hick on your own time? That's fine by me. You can even have your little pseudo-intellectual conversations about it on Storm Front, call yourself a European American, and a "Paleo-conservative". I don't care. I'll defend your right to be a jerk and to have your online discourse come back to haunt you when you fail to be anonymous about it one day.
We fail to educate parents when we failed to educate them as kids. I don't see either concern as exclusive of the other. To me, they're related.
Once they're adults there's nothing the government can do to force them to be better parents, but if you make sure the kids are educated, you'll have a better chance of producing future parents that value education. These educated parents can help their kids learn, but I don't believe that they can be expected to. We will continue to produce kids that are poorly educated without a government willing to pick up the slack.
I know the right considers grass roots and individual action as the only legitimate solution to social issues. But you can't expect parents who don't care to suddenly start caring because a busy body or a picket sign said so.
I believe the IQ factoid on this is really just a good trap.
If you want to spark a flame-war, or look like an anti-PC bad-ass on the Internet, bringing it up is a good way to do it. I believe this because any intelligent, productive conversation afterwards is usually impossible. It's like Godwin's Law, only better. An actual productive conversation could go in a few interesting directions, with points that could be debated on their own merits, but I almost never see that happen.
I've always felt playing the Wii U that its main drawback is the weak battery and lack of true portability. Fix that and you're golden. You'll have a console that's not just another set to box, and at the same time not just another iPod Touch or iPhone.
No one ever said that. They're said to have a tendency to focus on one thing like a laser and become extremely good at it, which could be useful to a company in situations where specialists are in high demand and social skills aren't necessary.
Windows Mobile is Windows CE, though not everyone liked it. I had a Tmobile Dash (HTC Excalibur) back in the day and it was pretty cool. Finding apps that could run on it was where I had trouble. If you remember, you had to download them as CAB files from your typical web page. WinMo and WinCE apps and games could run half the time. The other half of the time there was some problems with the screen resolution or some library was missing, or something else.
I think the transition to Windows Phone 7 could have been handled better. I never saw one out in the wild, and everyone that developed apps for WinMo stopped supporting the platform when MS abandoned it... and didn't necessarily pick up 7 development. There was zero compatibility, and WinPhone 7 didn't do well enough for people to care about it. When I moved on from the Touch Pro 2 (6.x I think), there was a newly released HTC HD2 phone with a huge screen that was initially popular before joining bargain bin thanks to Microsoft, and I had more trouble finding apps for my old phone as time went on (even some apps I already had at some point were gone).
Microsoft had the resources, background, and talent to do it right, and they knew more about phones than Apple did, yet they failed anyway. The fail was so epic, it's probably worthy of a movie script.
I've considered this as well, though I don't think the person has to constantly chase the event horizon. In holes large enough, they can exist just fine inside of it, with the horizon constantly chasing them and experience less gravitational sheering than you experience right now on Earth. The problem I have with common black holes evaporating is that it would require the universe to entropy to the degree that background radiation doesn't get in the way of these holes evaporating.
So it could be a while, if it happens at all.
A new problem I hadn't considered though: if common black holes do evaporate at all, their emission will return some lost energy to the universe, perhaps enough to keep other black holes from evaporating... slow the entropy of the universe or even halt it.
I'm not a scientist though, so I'm sure I got a lot wrong here.
I think when it comes to design (with any product), the fewer people that are involved in it the better the outcome will be. So while you can get away with blaming fru-fru useless artists in a lot of cases, maybe what you should really look at is how many people were involved overall, and how they are managed. Instead of having a large number of UX professionals, maybe all you need are a few, or just one. Perhaps they should just be a single consultant offering "take it or leave it" advice. Then your team of programmers can make it happen and make sure it works, hiring artist contractors as needed.
Personally I think the best outcome happens when the programmers have some art knowledge.
Your Gedit example though... wow. Yes that's pretty, but I'm with you on that one. Running a program and constantly thinking "Ok, how do I find " when it's in a standard place in every other program is one of the things that irritate me the most. But you'll have to admit that anyone - artist or programmer - could make that mistake... just maybe not the people actually using Gedit...
...because we're too lazy to find the real problem.
"Techies" are supposed to understand the technology. If they don't understand it, they work to understand it. That's what makes them techies.
Software is logic in its purest form, short of actual math-on-paper, meaning all bugs have their source here in the real world, and can be solved with real solutions and enough work. Imagine the frustration a developer might have if spirits were real and actually interested in causing these sorts of problems. If things were truly like that, we'd fail at everything technological, because you never know when something might break for no particular reason other than spirits. We'd still be in the stone age.
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Of course I don't expect you to believe me. That might require you to suffer an existential crisis by this point. I've read your comment history, it's all you talk about.
As for evidence, it's extensive enough that we have the military, food and drug production companies, insurance companies, and oil companies (who were among the first to realize it) all making plans for a warmer, more hostile world and broken ecosystem. Suggesting that all of this is just part of a conspiracy by climate snake oil salesmen is the greater claim with the least support.
"If you know what's good for you, if you know that they're leftists, you won't believe anything they say any time, anywhere, about anything ... So we have no the Four Corners of Deceit, and the two universes in which we live. The Universe of Lies, the Universe of Reality, and the Four Corners of Deceit: Government, academia, science, and media. Those institutions are now corrupt and exist by virtue of deceit." - Rush Limbaugh
The program must be pretty simple:
If the Republican Party agreed with the scientific community from the outset... or if most climate scientists were Republican to begin with, you'd believe in global warming. Though with the new questions of conservative purity going around, I'm not sure how long the scientists in this example could be considered true Republicans...
It brings to mind the terms revolutionary and counterevolutionary... from within a Communist country. Of course, you'll never agree with a counterrevolutionary, they always lie.
What I'd like to know, is how people get sucked into that mode of thinking to begin with, because by those rules everyone inside of it had to have an open mind at one point before deciding to close it, and once inside, since you trust them emphatically, they outline the necessary coding to keep you in.
Maybe it's fear, uncertainty, doubt... tools used by cultists like The Peoples Temple (origin of the Koolaid phrase). And what does that koolaid do? It kills them. It seals their fate, just as ignoring global warming science seals ours. At least in a cult the damage stays within the compound.
"Don't look out the window at the hurricane approaching. Work to prevent anyone else from sheltering from it. We're all safe so long as you do exactly what I tell you and listen to no one else."
Even if we act and do all we can to hold back global warming trends, it'll continue for some time before it gets better. What we're trying to avoid is a mass extinction event. Warming's already happening. Only the willfully ignorant have trouble seeing that.
So who's drinking what? Who's the suicide cult here?
Although unlikely, It would be interesting if they all came to Arkansas. The states population is about 3 million, that "drop in the bucket" would completely change the nature of it... probably for the better.
There are wasted hours on occasion yes, but the trick is to not fix your relative's (often shitty) computers. I make it a point not to, and my parents are pretty good with their own machines these days anyway.
My poor aunt though, she can never remember her password. She's always asking for help recovering it. So I finally told her, "I don't have the magic solution to that, but I can tell you what I did to figure it out the last time it happened." There's a tool you can use for Windows XP that'll reset passwords, but I don't think it works on newer systems so I'd start at square one. If I'm to start from Google, why can't she?
Look here, my pacemaker can play an obviously pirated copy of Super Mario by streaming RF radiation directly into my TV antennae. Downside: it requires me to play non-stop to stay alive. In hindsight, perhaps I shouldn't have bought it at that mall kiosk... the surgery was free though, so it was hard to say no.
The explosion stops to properly hang up the receiver before expanding further. Bomb makers initially had some difficulty getting the plasma to work with smartphone touch screens, but they figured it out years ago and the technology has been wide spread for some time.
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That's basically the same everywhere, but some places are worse than others. The US is good at making sure there's a legal framework for a lot of this crap. It does nominally restrict what they can get away with. If you stick to the letter of the law, and they fail to, you will eventually win (after much suffering). Many other places are notoriously bad about it, willfully breaking their own laws and often just erasing you.
And my favorite from the 90s: http://farm1.static.flickr.com...
The "Mac Addict" looks suspiciously like Seinfeld.
My school has that, but first year students have to live in the crusty old dorms built in the 1970s. Genders are separated, and multiple people sleep in the same room on bunks. When people think of dorms, they think of that. Not the new thing you describe.
And yeah, I'll agree with you, it sucks - they charge per student, rather than per unit. So at the new buildings you're paying something like $800 a month for a bedroom, and so is everyone else in that apartment. In a 4 (cramped) bedroom apartment they're netting $3200 a month from those suckers.
Maybe so, but if you complete a wonder before the other guy, you win the game.
In the end, doxing is a tactic that the powerless can effectively use against the powerful.
...Or keep the powerless in their place.
We have secrets and embarrassing things on Facebook and other places online that will never go away and can be found if you look hard enough. Most of us don't have the luxury of being groomed from birth to be politicians and avoid these pitfalls.
I don't like it, but honestly I feel like they should be able to say what they want so long as they don't get in my face about it. Most people are jerks anyway, so it makes sense that Yik Yak would be used to release all that pent up jerk-steam anonymously. Being a gentlemen in public, but a racist backwoods hick on your own time? That's fine by me. You can even have your little pseudo-intellectual conversations about it on Storm Front, call yourself a European American, and a "Paleo-conservative". I don't care. I'll defend your right to be a jerk and to have your online discourse come back to haunt you when you fail to be anonymous about it one day.
We fail to educate parents when we failed to educate them as kids. I don't see either concern as exclusive of the other. To me, they're related.
Once they're adults there's nothing the government can do to force them to be better parents, but if you make sure the kids are educated, you'll have a better chance of producing future parents that value education. These educated parents can help their kids learn, but I don't believe that they can be expected to. We will continue to produce kids that are poorly educated without a government willing to pick up the slack.
I know the right considers grass roots and individual action as the only legitimate solution to social issues. But you can't expect parents who don't care to suddenly start caring because a busy body or a picket sign said so.
I believe the IQ factoid on this is really just a good trap.
If you want to spark a flame-war, or look like an anti-PC bad-ass on the Internet, bringing it up is a good way to do it. I believe this because any intelligent, productive conversation afterwards is usually impossible. It's like Godwin's Law, only better. An actual productive conversation could go in a few interesting directions, with points that could be debated on their own merits, but I almost never see that happen.
I've always felt playing the Wii U that its main drawback is the weak battery and lack of true portability. Fix that and you're golden. You'll have a console that's not just another set to box, and at the same time not just another iPod Touch or iPhone.
Yeah, and when I saw this and unchecked it I was genuinely afraid that it would install Windows 10 anyway.
[Boot computer...]
Insert coin.
[Browse internet for Linux distro.]
Game Over
Insert coin.
No one ever said that. They're said to have a tendency to focus on one thing like a laser and become extremely good at it, which could be useful to a company in situations where specialists are in high demand and social skills aren't necessary.
Windows Mobile is Windows CE, though not everyone liked it. I had a Tmobile Dash (HTC Excalibur) back in the day and it was pretty cool. Finding apps that could run on it was where I had trouble. If you remember, you had to download them as CAB files from your typical web page. WinMo and WinCE apps and games could run half the time. The other half of the time there was some problems with the screen resolution or some library was missing, or something else.
I think the transition to Windows Phone 7 could have been handled better. I never saw one out in the wild, and everyone that developed apps for WinMo stopped supporting the platform when MS abandoned it... and didn't necessarily pick up 7 development. There was zero compatibility, and WinPhone 7 didn't do well enough for people to care about it. When I moved on from the Touch Pro 2 (6.x I think), there was a newly released HTC HD2 phone with a huge screen that was initially popular before joining bargain bin thanks to Microsoft, and I had more trouble finding apps for my old phone as time went on (even some apps I already had at some point were gone).
Microsoft had the resources, background, and talent to do it right, and they knew more about phones than Apple did, yet they failed anyway. The fail was so epic, it's probably worthy of a movie script.
I've considered this as well, though I don't think the person has to constantly chase the event horizon. In holes large enough, they can exist just fine inside of it, with the horizon constantly chasing them and experience less gravitational sheering than you experience right now on Earth. The problem I have with common black holes evaporating is that it would require the universe to entropy to the degree that background radiation doesn't get in the way of these holes evaporating.
So it could be a while, if it happens at all.
A new problem I hadn't considered though: if common black holes do evaporate at all, their emission will return some lost energy to the universe, perhaps enough to keep other black holes from evaporating... slow the entropy of the universe or even halt it.
I'm not a scientist though, so I'm sure I got a lot wrong here.
Impressive.
I can see it now, a post card that says: "Greetings from Ohio!" and in the background, their famous highway overpass.
I think when it comes to design (with any product), the fewer people that are involved in it the better the outcome will be. So while you can get away with blaming fru-fru useless artists in a lot of cases, maybe what you should really look at is how many people were involved overall, and how they are managed. Instead of having a large number of UX professionals, maybe all you need are a few, or just one. Perhaps they should just be a single consultant offering "take it or leave it" advice. Then your team of programmers can make it happen and make sure it works, hiring artist contractors as needed.
Personally I think the best outcome happens when the programmers have some art knowledge.
Your Gedit example though... wow. Yes that's pretty, but I'm with you on that one. Running a program and constantly thinking "Ok, how do I find " when it's in a standard place in every other program is one of the things that irritate me the most. But you'll have to admit that anyone - artist or programmer - could make that mistake... just maybe not the people actually using Gedit...
...because we're too lazy to find the real problem. "Techies" are supposed to understand the technology. If they don't understand it, they work to understand it. That's what makes them techies. Software is logic in its purest form, short of actual math-on-paper, meaning all bugs have their source here in the real world, and can be solved with real solutions and enough work. Imagine the frustration a developer might have if spirits were real and actually interested in causing these sorts of problems. If things were truly like that, we'd fail at everything technological, because you never know when something might break for no particular reason other than spirits. We'd still be in the stone age.
It's less complicated than that. Just steal the CD and you'll get less time, if any time at all.