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Comment Re:So where's the transcript? (Score 1) 117

Woof! :-)

None of this derogates from the fact that the most prominent SJWs were engaging in unrealistic and often fake histrionics and outright lies (Briana Wu especially) for their own self-aggrandizement and/or financial interests.

Once that became painfully obvious, I say a pox on both their houses - they deserve each other. Calmer, more rational people will withdraw from such stupidity and work on the problems via other means.

Both sides have a few valid points (reverse discrimination being one of them for men and discrimination and sexism for women) but the extremists are so caught up in making drama instead of solving problems. The crazies on both sides are a very small minority (which is why they had to create so many sock puppets - they obviously don't have much of a following).

Comment Re:None. (Score 1) 302

If you can't make a trivial loop to automate repetitive tasks, then your computer is reduced to a glorified typewriter/TV/gaming console.

Guess what? That's all that most people want or need. They leave the automation of tasks to someone who actually knows how to do it, rather than create a million different buggy solutions that screw up the data.

With local search and MRU lists in each application most people don't even need to know how the file system is structured.

People with zero knowledge of html use the internet all the time. It's so simple even a child can do it :-)

Comment Re:This is how organized religion dies (Score 1) 623

So what? You asked how we dealt with it - I told you. Your problem is that you don't like the answer because it doesn't fit into your preconceived notion of what the "right" answer is. So what if the ban has certain exceptions? That's how we deal with it - on a practical level, not by being pedants.

And now you complain about things like inheritance. Again, so what? Those are also dealt with in the law.

Comment Re:no power (Score 1) 446

You can argue that all you want, but that's not how real life is. People visiting either go on business, as tourists to see sights (not restaurants, etc) or friends and family.

As far as where to eat, they'll go with what's nearby or what others recommend.

Just look at how many restaurant web sites never get updated because even the restauranteur has forgotten about them, and customers never mention them.

Comment Powerpoint resulted in the loss of 2 space shuttle (Score 4, Funny) 327

here and here

The shuttle disasters Richard Feynman, the late Nobel laureate and CalTech physicist, saw that "bulletized" thinking contributed to the Challenger disaster, where 7 crew members died and a multi-billion dollar craft destroyed due to an O-ring failure. The big problem was that NASA management wasn't really listening to the engineers - and breaking issues up into bullets helped them do that.

The engineers who worked on the Challenger O-rings knew they weren't qualified for cold weather. But management didn't want to hear it and OK'd the launch despite the engineer's opposition.

As sometimes happens, disaster ensued.

In the 2003 Columbia shuttle disaster, Prof. Tufte dissects the PowerPoint slides that buried important information - such as volume, mass and velocity - about the large piece of foam insulation that penetrated the Columbia's heat shield. Creating useful engineering reports in PowerPoint is difficult if not impossible.

And of course, powerpoint makes you stupid

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