Being an asshole is not part of any culture, and endemic sexism (which clearly exists) is not the same as inherent sexism.
Working to end sexual harassment is not an attack on hacker culture. (And nor is it necessary or helpful to attack hacker culture in order to end sexual harassment.)
After what MS has done to pervert the standards process, any proposal with its name on it needs to be filed, unopened, in the bin. They have proven that every meaningful interaction they have with a standards body is intended solely to subvert, manipulate or destroy it.
Take Hulu. They pollute global search rankings by pretending to host movies, then refuse to serve any content because you're not in the US. Google, in turn, pretends to serve results that are relevant to your location - and still give back tons of Hulu results regardless of where you are.
Well if they'd shown up immediately, then after 2:00 the second team would have been scraping firefighter parts off the scenery. And so, after 6:21, would the third team.
There's just no way to get a burning rocket fuel tank under control. Also no point; the craft is a loss anyway, and there's nothing else close enough to be in danger.
Isn't there the old rule, if you receive something in the mail that you didn't order....you can keep it, etc?
Sure, in six-year-old court, the applicable doctrine is "Finders Keepers". In grown-up court, however, sending an item through the post does not by itself confer ownership, and holding on to something the sender didn't mean to send you is illegal. Not sure whether this could lead merely to a court ordering you to return it or in fact theft charges.
That's before you get into the part where it's a felony to possess, transport, sell, etc. etc. this kind of gun in D.C.
In short, doing anything other than what he did, ie. call the police, could easily lead to jailtime.
The message I got is that even if humanity is fated to become part of some grand cosmic scheme, it will be in a form completely incomprehensible to us. That the eventual future of humanity will be as alien to us as we would be to Neanderthals. That despite all the advances we have made in the last half century, and will make in the next few decades, no generation of humanity lasts forever.
No, see? If used games were not resellable, those 17% would be paid in extra money that all gamers have an infinite amount of. It couldn't possibly result in a loss in sales due to reduced disposable income.
He's got all of three datapoints, and completely glosses over the problem that 1820 is inside his measuring range, without any such peak. It's right there inside his diagram.
Next: Civil war, great war, Vietnam/cold war. There are completely different primary causes for each of the points he describes, and they're only tenuously linked to each other. While you can probably plot the chain of events linking WW1 to WW2 and thence to the cold war culminating in the civil rights movement and Vietnam, that involves some heavy cherrypicking of dates. And as for civil war and WW1, those were in completely separate theaters.
Now consider the likelihood of three similar events making a pattern by chance. Texas sharpshooter fallacy. Look at the degrees of freedom: A pattern isn't established by the first or second events, but by one single third event that happens to be as many years from the second as the second from the first. Three is the bare minimum to even define a pattern. And that's exactly how many data points he has.
Avoid buying anything that has Windows installed on it. I already do that for aesthetic reasons; now that it's not just a matter of reformatting I have even more reason to.
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So we know it's true.
Being an asshole is not part of any culture, and endemic sexism (which clearly exists) is not the same as inherent sexism.
Working to end sexual harassment is not an attack on hacker culture. (And nor is it necessary or helpful to attack hacker culture in order to end sexual harassment.)
Yeah, I think we have more than enough people doing God's work. Dan Cathy and Pat Robertson are doing a fine job there.
After what MS has done to pervert the standards process, any proposal with its name on it needs to be filed, unopened, in the bin. They have proven that every meaningful interaction they have with a standards body is intended solely to subvert, manipulate or destroy it.
Take Hulu. They pollute global search rankings by pretending to host movies, then refuse to serve any content because you're not in the US. Google, in turn, pretends to serve results that are relevant to your location - and still give back tons of Hulu results regardless of where you are.
Well if they'd shown up immediately, then after 2:00 the second team would have been scraping firefighter parts off the scenery. And so, after 6:21, would the third team.
There's just no way to get a burning rocket fuel tank under control. Also no point; the craft is a loss anyway, and there's nothing else close enough to be in danger.
Sure, in six-year-old court, the applicable doctrine is "Finders Keepers". In grown-up court, however, sending an item through the post does not by itself confer ownership, and holding on to something the sender didn't mean to send you is illegal. Not sure whether this could lead merely to a court ordering you to return it or in fact theft charges.
That's before you get into the part where it's a felony to possess, transport, sell, etc. etc. this kind of gun in D.C.
In short, doing anything other than what he did, ie. call the police, could easily lead to jailtime.
Quoth North Korea: We don't need a bomb for that, our Magnificent Leader will simply melt it with his laser eyes.
North Carolina passed a law against global warming. This is illegal!
SOPA -> More power to corporations.
Tea Party -> More power to corporations.
"flooding the torrent channels"?
That is so not how BitTorrent works.
They're German, and AA mostly stands for "Association of America".
(The G isn't for "German"; obviously if they had that in the name it'd be "D".)
The "bunch of assholes" part is accurate however.
More like they finally ran out of shovels.
Yeah, that'll teach you, other companies. Frivolous copyright litigation will lead to bankruptcy. A decade later. Maybe.
Exactly my thoughts.
The message I got is that even if humanity is fated to become part of some grand cosmic scheme, it will be in a form completely incomprehensible to us. That the eventual future of humanity will be as alien to us as we would be to Neanderthals. That despite all the advances we have made in the last half century, and will make in the next few decades, no generation of humanity lasts forever.
One has to admit that going by the fanaticism of his fandom, he beats out every modern writer.
No, see? If used games were not resellable, those 17% would be paid in extra money that all gamers have an infinite amount of. It couldn't possibly result in a loss in sales due to reduced disposable income.
An interesting definition of "all going well"...
What do you mean, chicken aren't fish? They lay eggs, don't they?
Hey, spoiler alert this shit, or nobody can get any more research grants for it.
He's got all of three datapoints, and completely glosses over the problem that 1820 is inside his measuring range, without any such peak. It's right there inside his diagram.
Next: Civil war, great war, Vietnam/cold war. There are completely different primary causes for each of the points he describes, and they're only tenuously linked to each other. While you can probably plot the chain of events linking WW1 to WW2 and thence to the cold war culminating in the civil rights movement and Vietnam, that involves some heavy cherrypicking of dates. And as for civil war and WW1, those were in completely separate theaters.
Now consider the likelihood of three similar events making a pattern by chance. Texas sharpshooter fallacy. Look at the degrees of freedom: A pattern isn't established by the first or second events, but by one single third event that happens to be as many years from the second as the second from the first. Three is the bare minimum to even define a pattern. And that's exactly how many data points he has.
"Guess where we'll be taking you today."
Avoid buying anything that has Windows installed on it. I already do that for aesthetic reasons; now that it's not just a matter of reformatting I have even more reason to.
http://xkcd.com/392/
I think I finally understand EULAs.
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