Comment Re:Chinese soda pop fallacy (Score 1) 222
That's like hearing a midget brag about his huge dick.
That's like hearing a midget brag about his huge dick.
Oh, the story has one good function. It points up how in isolation, such metrics are garbage.
Otherwise.... what you said.
XP64 here. Same philosophy. Block the garbage, don't be stupid, glory in my lack of visitors, and remember that attack vectors are mostly discovered by reverse-engineering the patches. No patches, way fewer clues.
Whatever small risks are well offset by an OS that doesn't continually make me long to reach through my monitor and throttle a UI developer.
Sort of like the Royal family?
I went to school back in the days of leaded gas. Precisely zero of that shit happened back then. I attribute it to societal breakdown due to economic pressures (american businessmen offshoring as much as possible, and automating the rest), effectively ending traditional stay-at-home parenting.
And also due to social pressures, (media constantly trolling for clicks with flame headlines and "analysis") combined with political extremists shouting over everyone all the time. It's the "false dichotomy" thinking that leads kids to think there are no alternatives.
California brings water from a lot farther than that -- the Aqueduct runs about 500 miles to service Los Angeles. (And has turned the formerly-lush Owens Valley into a desert.)
Destroying the first dam was environmentally catastrophic, and produced a massive fish kill. Ooops.
Lulu.com has been around since 2002. You can get a black and white book of reasonable length with a full color cover printed for under $4. And they can do additional work so your book can be sold directly on Amazon.
This isn't dealing with the publishing side. It's dealing entirely with the teams of people used to write some books and how to manage profit sharing.
If you can write your own books and have your own audience, this isn't for you. If you need 20 people to write a book, this might be for you.
Less than 1000 individual fiction authors in the United States make a living at it. Doing collaborative work might produce enough revenue to actually pay people.
Whataboutism is a propaganda technique first used by the Soviet Union, in its dealings with the Western world[1]
When Cold War criticisms were levelled at the Soviet Union, the response would be "What about..." followed by the naming of an event in the Western world.[2][3]
It represents a case of tu quoque (appeal to hypocrisy),[4] a logical fallacy that attempts to discredit the opponent's position by asserting the opponent's failure to act consistently in accordance with that position, without directly refuting or disproving the opponent's initial argument.
It was discussed extensively among certain progressive news sites which is where I was hanging out at the time. I hope nobody thinks the DNC is somehow liberal or left -- they aren't. Except to those who are so far to the right that everything else is left of them. And yes, I recall watergate, and the pentagon papers. Was there and alive at the time.
Actually I got it from rather prominent progressive/economics site. They were rooting against the DNC for rather obvious reasons at the time. Nice try, tho.
No kidding, I did believe that he was the leaker. Never heard anything to the contrary, this is the first time. I am disgusted more by the behavior of the political animals than anything else.
Let's not forget Seth Richards (Hillary Clinton 's IT guy) seems he was shot in a botched robbery attempt. Something about emails and leaks.
Growing up in the 70s and 80s it was pretty much the same for me. The crap didn't really get started until the 90's IMHO. And now it's in overdrive.
"No matter where you go, there you are..." -- Buckaroo Banzai
