It's just $15 a month. There's a certain threshold when I stop caring how big an ass or how many private jets a person gets as a result. Hell, you provide all that for $15, you deserve all the fat, cocktails, and jets you can afford from that. Just... spread a little bit more of it to the people actually producing the show maybe. Yeah, that would be nice if the artists and TDs for our favorite shows could have a steady income and a corporate insurance policy for a change...
Others have stated it's probably more about the getting away with paying less of a salary. So instead of an Indian taking your job. It'll be a black guy... but it won't be because they like black people.
As a black person, this makes me nervous. I never want to be accused of being a "diversity hire", but all I have is an Associates. It works fine as a tech person in the construction industry in a flyover state - I'm not the only one without a 4 year degree - but if I ever want to get serious and enter a tech industry proper, I might want to consider returning to school to prove my worth and to avoid being promoted to a position were I'm an incompetent excuse for MBAs to pay less salary.
I don't think you have to lie to troll. Call the target names? Egg them on? Sure. But you can be an epic jerk while telling the truth. That's part of why I think there's a difference. Trolls enjoy driving people nuts and the resulting negative attention is their source of amusement. Lies might make you mad, but no one is the sole arbiter of truth - you might be mistaken about some things, and there's more than one reason to lie, so while I think that qualifier might cover most trolls in most conversations, it's not a set limited to them.
When people call everything that doesn't settle well with them something inaccurate, that muddies the waters and confuses the issue. Phrases like Fake News and Social Justice Warrior fell to this fate. When everything is Fake, nothing is. When SJWs are just people who disagree with you, then there's a real epidemic of SJWs who must be fought for "great justice" and kiks, leaving a troll all the excuse they need to be what they are.
I'd just like people to be more precise when it comes to this. They would like nothing more than for the label to lose meaning like everything else has.
Want to speak your mind without consequence? Go outside.
If some guy cuts you off on the road, flip him off. It's a free country.
If he then gets out of the car and starts walking towards you, give him the business. It's a free country.
If he then pulls out a crowbar, tell him about himself. It's a free country.
Don't forget to give him a peace of your mind when he pulls you out of your vehicle. Though he's liable to take all of that and then some, at least outside you're free to escalate without moderation from pesky liberals.
Being a dick without consequence though, is the tricky bit. For that you'll need Voat. *cringe*.
That won't be enough. Opinion might be an issue for people confusing commentary for news, but the reporting itself can be at fault. They can omit certain things, misrepresent statistics, and stir up fear and emotion by reporting on one thing all day every day for days at a time. When the Boston Bombing occurred, and the surviving perpetrator was caught, I have no doubt that everything they said about the man was true. But I also have no doubt that they talked way too much about him, and not enough about the victims.
I believe that we can't survive as a country without accurate information upon which we can act. But I also know that it isn't enough just to keep bias out of the equation. Certain things are omitted, other things are elevated. The equation that modern news runs on gets eyeballs, pays the bills, and destroys the country. Sometimes though it's tempting to say, good riddance... let it burn. We can't do anything about this. When we barely understand what's going on, nor can agree on a solution when we do, how can there be any hope?
Out of curiosity, when do you think a city is too big? I have a friend telling me I should move to the bigger ones, especially on the coasts to get a better understanding of what's happening to us politically and socially. Talking to him makes me feel like I'm living in Mayberry. I want to be able to say that he's being overly dramatic, but he (and you) may have a point.
It's almost not a console. It's a portable with console capabilities - a big game boy - and I love it. Once they get the virtual console and the top tier Nintendo and 3rd party games it'll be even greater.
Well, someone cared at least. Their interests are every bit as valid as yours - if we let the Salt of the Earth dictate how science funds were spent, there wouldn't be much science going on.
having the computer locked down so that only OS maker-"approved" apps can run might be mandated by law because "only hackers would run un-'approved' software" or some other such BS.
I sympathize with your cynicism, but I don't think it'll come to that. Though I stay current, I still have older Windows machines that run almost everything, like most computer geeks. There's also Linux, Haiku, weird custom student built OS's, and a plethora of off the shelf hardware you can use to build your own machine (I build an entirely new desktop every 3-5 years.)
To get what you're talking about, you need a regime every bit as restrictive and micromanaging as North Korea, and if it comes to that our last concern will be our computers.
If the FBI- or really anyone- had dirt on Trump, it would have come out.
Not during an ongoing investigation.
Enjoy the next 8 years buddy, it's gonna be a wild ride.
This is correct. Trump can be impeached, resign, commit suicide, disappear, lose in four years, or win reelection. It doesn't matter. We're in for at minimum a decade of fuctitude. The only solution is to fight where possible but also work to avoid getting caught up in and victimized by the whirlwind.
Whether America is fucked beyond repair or beyond recognition are the only two possibilities we have in our national future.
Cast off your dependence to the state (welfare, student aid, insurance, etc) and to your employer (become self employed and/or a rugged survivalist) and you might be okay.
If you can do it for that reason - and you're apparently not worried about breaking the law with your misguided sense of vigilantism - you can go after the husband directly. Right now.
This accusation is only effective against people who aren't anti-Jewish in the first place. It's intended to guilt-trip kind people who've aligned themselves with a group you oppose. Their hearts are their weakness, so accusing them of being Nazis can be pretty effective.
I think the fact that you see nothing wrong with defending a Jewish ethno-state particularly telling. Your idea of a one state solution probably involves busing all the Palestinians out to Jordan, because if they were to become full citizens, Israel will nolonger be a Jewish state.
I knew a friend of a friend, a girl, who had recently left school with a useless degree. She had gone in default on her student loans, and I was trying to tell her that the whole thing was avoidable, and that there still were things she could do to deal with that, repair her credit, and avoid wage garnishment. She insisted on being hopeless, deciding that she'd join the military on some hope or prayer that it would forgive her debt.
Though you're not able declare bankruptcy, there's still things you can do if you can't pay back your student loans. Something I use to help is called Income Based Repayment. With that alone you basically have no excuse to let things get that bad, and if you pay it consistently, your debt is forgiven in 20 years - less if you work in education.
So... if I can do it does that make me a master programmer? Recursion is great. I used it most recently for binary search. Yeah there's probably a library for that, but I had fun. I can also do heap sort.
Our Constitutional Republic is considered a form of Democracy. A Direct Democracy is also a form of Democracy. The fact that a Constitutional Republic isn't a Direct Democracy does not mean it's not a Democracy at all.
I think the people that make the fallacious point that we're not a Democracy do so in response to people complaining about their government not representing the will of the people. It's a statement in defense of a representative system clearly failing to represent, and a rejection of the idea that the government should only operate with the Consent of the Governed. Wikipedia contrasts this with the Divine Right of Kings, which unfortunately is how some of our leaders prefer to operate.
I'm betting the Slashdot readership is older... and that it has more engineers than Ars. I'm not completely sure, but engineers are supposed to be more conservative than scientists and artists, and I figure a forum full of grey haired engineers would be pretty conservative. I mean, you have some really low ID numbered folks with decades of experience and six figure incomes denying it here.
They're not stupid people... it's just a reality that science has to be politically acceptable in order to be accepted at all. So long as conservatism exists, it'll be debated. So long as it's debated on political merits, there will always be some doubts from 1/2 of the total population. And so long as that is true, we'll be too divided to take any meaningful action on it when we still can.
Free speech and legal protests are a useful and democratic way of galvanizing the political opposition. Tea Partiers did it. The opposition here can and should do it too. Being quiet is not the way this works.
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It's just $15 a month. There's a certain threshold when I stop caring how big an ass or how many private jets a person gets as a result. Hell, you provide all that for $15, you deserve all the fat, cocktails, and jets you can afford from that. Just... spread a little bit more of it to the people actually producing the show maybe. Yeah, that would be nice if the artists and TDs for our favorite shows could have a steady income and a corporate insurance policy for a change...
Others have stated it's probably more about the getting away with paying less of a salary. So instead of an Indian taking your job. It'll be a black guy... but it won't be because they like black people.
As a black person, this makes me nervous. I never want to be accused of being a "diversity hire", but all I have is an Associates. It works fine as a tech person in the construction industry in a flyover state - I'm not the only one without a 4 year degree - but if I ever want to get serious and enter a tech industry proper, I might want to consider returning to school to prove my worth and to avoid being promoted to a position were I'm an incompetent excuse for MBAs to pay less salary.
I don't think you have to lie to troll. Call the target names? Egg them on? Sure. But you can be an epic jerk while telling the truth. That's part of why I think there's a difference. Trolls enjoy driving people nuts and the resulting negative attention is their source of amusement. Lies might make you mad, but no one is the sole arbiter of truth - you might be mistaken about some things, and there's more than one reason to lie, so while I think that qualifier might cover most trolls in most conversations, it's not a set limited to them.
When people call everything that doesn't settle well with them something inaccurate, that muddies the waters and confuses the issue. Phrases like Fake News and Social Justice Warrior fell to this fate. When everything is Fake, nothing is. When SJWs are just people who disagree with you, then there's a real epidemic of SJWs who must be fought for "great justice" and kiks, leaving a troll all the excuse they need to be what they are.
I'd just like people to be more precise when it comes to this. They would like nothing more than for the label to lose meaning like everything else has.
Want to speak your mind without consequence? Go outside.
If some guy cuts you off on the road, flip him off. It's a free country.
If he then gets out of the car and starts walking towards you, give him the business. It's a free country.
If he then pulls out a crowbar, tell him about himself. It's a free country.
Don't forget to give him a peace of your mind when he pulls you out of your vehicle. Though he's liable to take all of that and then some, at least outside you're free to escalate without moderation from pesky liberals.
Being a dick without consequence though, is the tricky bit. For that you'll need Voat. *cringe*.
Trolling happens when people make things personal, not when people take things personally.
The trolls aren't the RTs of the world broadcasting lies and making you frustrated, it's all the shrill "centipedes" in our midsts.
They work towards the same ends, but aren't the same thing.
Overzealous... use of parentheses flags you for sure.
That won't be enough. Opinion might be an issue for people confusing commentary for news, but the reporting itself can be at fault. They can omit certain things, misrepresent statistics, and stir up fear and emotion by reporting on one thing all day every day for days at a time. When the Boston Bombing occurred, and the surviving perpetrator was caught, I have no doubt that everything they said about the man was true. But I also have no doubt that they talked way too much about him, and not enough about the victims.
I believe that we can't survive as a country without accurate information upon which we can act. But I also know that it isn't enough just to keep bias out of the equation. Certain things are omitted, other things are elevated. The equation that modern news runs on gets eyeballs, pays the bills, and destroys the country. Sometimes though it's tempting to say, good riddance... let it burn. We can't do anything about this. When we barely understand what's going on, nor can agree on a solution when we do, how can there be any hope?
Out of curiosity, when do you think a city is too big? I have a friend telling me I should move to the bigger ones, especially on the coasts to get a better understanding of what's happening to us politically and socially. Talking to him makes me feel like I'm living in Mayberry. I want to be able to say that he's being overly dramatic, but he (and you) may have a point.
It's almost not a console. It's a portable with console capabilities - a big game boy - and I love it. Once they get the virtual console and the top tier Nintendo and 3rd party games it'll be even greater.
Well, someone cared at least. Their interests are every bit as valid as yours - if we let the Salt of the Earth dictate how science funds were spent, there wouldn't be much science going on.
Lol, experts who are holding the next evolution of man from obtaining true greatness I'm sure.
having the computer locked down so that only OS maker-"approved" apps can run might be mandated by law because "only hackers would run un-'approved' software" or some other such BS.
I sympathize with your cynicism, but I don't think it'll come to that. Though I stay current, I still have older Windows machines that run almost everything, like most computer geeks. There's also Linux, Haiku, weird custom student built OS's, and a plethora of off the shelf hardware you can use to build your own machine (I build an entirely new desktop every 3-5 years.)
To get what you're talking about, you need a regime every bit as restrictive and micromanaging as North Korea, and if it comes to that our last concern will be our computers.
If the FBI- or really anyone- had dirt on Trump, it would have come out.
Not during an ongoing investigation.
Enjoy the next 8 years buddy, it's gonna be a wild ride.
This is correct. Trump can be impeached, resign, commit suicide, disappear, lose in four years, or win reelection. It doesn't matter. We're in for at minimum a decade of fuctitude. The only solution is to fight where possible but also work to avoid getting caught up in and victimized by the whirlwind.
Whether America is fucked beyond repair or beyond recognition are the only two possibilities we have in our national future.
Cast off your dependence to the state (welfare, student aid, insurance, etc) and to your employer (become self employed and/or a rugged survivalist) and you might be okay.
If you can do it for that reason - and you're apparently not worried about breaking the law with your misguided sense of vigilantism - you can go after the husband directly. Right now.
Unless you're a coward.
Windows dies when that happens.
This accusation is only effective against people who aren't anti-Jewish in the first place. It's intended to guilt-trip kind people who've aligned themselves with a group you oppose. Their hearts are their weakness, so accusing them of being Nazis can be pretty effective.
I think the fact that you see nothing wrong with defending a Jewish ethno-state particularly telling. Your idea of a one state solution probably involves busing all the Palestinians out to Jordan, because if they were to become full citizens, Israel will nolonger be a Jewish state.
I knew a friend of a friend, a girl, who had recently left school with a useless degree. She had gone in default on her student loans, and I was trying to tell her that the whole thing was avoidable, and that there still were things she could do to deal with that, repair her credit, and avoid wage garnishment. She insisted on being hopeless, deciding that she'd join the military on some hope or prayer that it would forgive her debt.
Though you're not able declare bankruptcy, there's still things you can do if you can't pay back your student loans. Something I use to help is called Income Based Repayment. With that alone you basically have no excuse to let things get that bad, and if you pay it consistently, your debt is forgiven in 20 years - less if you work in education.
Sure they will. We'll be their primary source of protein.
B is Excelsior class. C is some weird hybrid kitbash thing (The Internet says Ambassador class). I stopped caring after D.
So... if I can do it does that make me a master programmer? Recursion is great. I used it most recently for binary search. Yeah there's probably a library for that, but I had fun. I can also do heap sort.
Can I work for Google now?
Our Constitutional Republic is considered a form of Democracy. A Direct Democracy is also a form of Democracy. The fact that a Constitutional Republic isn't a Direct Democracy does not mean it's not a Democracy at all.
I think the people that make the fallacious point that we're not a Democracy do so in response to people complaining about their government not representing the will of the people. It's a statement in defense of a representative system clearly failing to represent, and a rejection of the idea that the government should only operate with the Consent of the Governed. Wikipedia contrasts this with the Divine Right of Kings, which unfortunately is how some of our leaders prefer to operate.
Legislation-as-a-Service. All the hip new kids are doing it.
I'm betting the Slashdot readership is older... and that it has more engineers than Ars. I'm not completely sure, but engineers are supposed to be more conservative than scientists and artists, and I figure a forum full of grey haired engineers would be pretty conservative. I mean, you have some really low ID numbered folks with decades of experience and six figure incomes denying it here.
They're not stupid people... it's just a reality that science has to be politically acceptable in order to be accepted at all. So long as conservatism exists, it'll be debated. So long as it's debated on political merits, there will always be some doubts from 1/2 of the total population. And so long as that is true, we'll be too divided to take any meaningful action on it when we still can.
It supported it until around 2009/10. That's around the time my PC's TV card became quite a bit less useful.
Free speech and legal protests are a useful and democratic way of galvanizing the political opposition. Tea Partiers did it. The opposition here can and should do it too. Being quiet is not the way this works.