Comment Re:Dangerous (Score 1) 177
Never heard of timers?
and carry a tripod?
oh so a tripod is less narcissistic than a monopod?
Never heard of timers?
and carry a tripod?
oh so a tripod is less narcissistic than a monopod?
Your mom, your wife, your baby and you. Makes it 4, of which one of you can't take photos.
You aren't getting it. My mom is in another country, she hasn't met the baby and wants photos of us all as a group. Its nice for her. Understand now?
Not everyone who uses a selfie stick is using it to just get a narcissistic photo of *themselves*.
Yeah because you're always taking photos in secluded spots with no one around.....
Yes most of the time actually
If there are 4 of you, then there is no reason that one of you can't take a photo of the other 3, and for the all of you photo, call a bystander. This is if y'all are outdoors, maybe touring some place. If you are indoors, it's not all that difficult to set up the timer mode on the camera, and in 10 seconds, get the shot of all of you.
The only people for whom they're really useful is a single person, or a single person and his/her kid, w/ the kid too young to take a pic. But even then, using the timer mode, or holding it at arms length makes it easy, particularly since you can see how you look before clicking!
2 plus a baby, can we please use a selfie stick without being labelled narcissistic?
I think Disney will clarify their statement -- "You can still use a selfie stick, as long as it's bought from a country overseas at a cheaper price."
I was thinking more -- "You can still use a selfie stick as long as its a Disney branded one that you bought inside the theme park (at outrageously inflated prices)."
Selfie sticks are, at best, narcissistic nonsense, but the person who whipped one out on a rollercoaster was risking injury to himself and his fellow riders. How much of a grip can you have on a stick with a weight on the end while hurtling through twists and turns? And if you lose your grip, the best case scenario is that your phone falls and shatters below. Worst case scenario is it hits into someone and injures them. All because he "needed" to get a photo of himself.
Great work on Disney's part shuttig down the ride until that selfie stick was confiscated.
Selfie sticks are not always narcissistic nonsense. My mum loves to get photos of my wife our child and myself. Its not always practical to get some third person to take a photo of us as a group. Thats where the selfie stick comes in.
Half the world is intent on making rules for everything, just because "there ought to be a law" against anything remotely risky or unpleasant. And the other half lashes out by ignoring those rules an doing what the hell they want.
Everything not forbidden is compulsory!!
How about -- rules are just guidelines, unless they are enforced
Congratulation, you just created a police state, where we have to put enforcement on every fucking thing because we can't expect people to be civil.
Welcome to the UK!
They are a global taxi service with centralized command and control. A taxi service which does not want to be treated as a taxi service. The only difference is they use a smart phone app as a dispatcher.
They lie about what they are and elicit sympathy for the 'little guy' to rip off the little guy. I will use the independents instead, thank you.
The only place I've known that has independent taxi drivers is Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia where literally anyone at any time can decide to be a taxi on the spot and pick someone up.
Is that what you mean by 'independents' or do you really mean 'taxi drivers who work for entrenched licence holders'?
Yeah, that's it, NSA wanted Cisco to do something so stupid it would take the Chinese 2 minutes to figure out how holey their boxes are.
I don't get the impression that the NSA really think things like this through to that extent.
If cisco didn't use interns and cheap H1B labor, maybe this wouldn't happen. Seriously, they need some experience, security minded people to manage and review these products before they ship.
If you think this is bad, try looking at the cisco ACE load balancers. They can't even do modern crypto and they refuse to update them.
Are you kidding? This was done for support reasons; to support the NSA.
Well that's exactly it. Isn't the argument that a person may feel as though their brain is a particular gender, and that the physical characteristics of their body represent the opposite gender. I can imagine, being quite comfortable with my own gender, that this would be something of a nightmare.
You're right, they cannot change their gender, for that is seated in their brain. And so they're changing their body, which certainly can be modified, to match.
Why is this a bad thing, if we accept the initial argument?
If their 'brain feels' a particular gender different from that of their body then isn't that by definition a delusion?
Gender isn't like ethnicity, where its driven by self identification. Its more like species.
Theres a similar continuity of species where membership of a species isn't black and white, much like I posit for gender. However, the point where an individual is on that continuum isn't something they can change by wearing different clothes or getting cosmetic surgery. Same with race.
Suppose I was part Asian, say my great grandfather was Asian, but the rest of my ancestors were European. So on the continuum of race I'm way over the European side but not all the way. But I 'feel like my brain is Asian'. To look at me you would think I was European. This makes me uncomfortable; I want people to look at me and think I'm the race that I 'feel in my brain'. So I get cosmetic surgery to make me look Asian such that if you were to look at me you'd go "Oh an Asian guy". But that wouldn't make me Asian, would it?
I have no problem with such a person, or a 'transgender' person, wanting to get cosmetic surgery to feel more comfortable in their body. I just hope it works out and they don't feel like a disgusting mess afterward and kill themselves because they can't really get their penis reconstructed.
Where I draw the line is the distortion of the concept of gender or race so that it becomes like something you can 'dress up like' and change. I think that this is where 'sex change' or 'gender reassignment' surgery is being misrepresented to the people to whom it is being offered. Its a fraud.
They feel pressured by society into making a choice, that they have to throw themselves completely into trying to be male XOR female. They can't be allowed to be a bit of both.
Sure. There are people like that, and no-one rational should prevent them from living their lives as they see fit. If someone wants to be a little bit girl and a little bit boy, then more power to them.
But that's not everyone is it? The fact is that there are people who feel trapped in the wrong-gendered body, and wish to change it. It's their body, and they should be free to modify it how they please. I don't believe that this is always the result of black-and-white girl-or-boy false dichotomies (if that's what they are, you get the idea). After all, gender modification is a serious undertaking, and takes years of surgery and medication. You're saying that everyone that undergoes that process is delusional, and should be happy with the bits that god gave them?
But the truth is that they can't change it. There is no way to change their gender. What they are being offered is cosmetic surgery to give the *appearance* of the other gender.
Cosmetic surgery cannot alter gender.
What's illegal about protesting illegal government actions? Uber is ILLEGAL in France but they continue to operate! Do you understand the concept of "protest"? The idle rich like you are SUPPOSED to be inconvenienced, it is the INTENTION that you get annoyed.
Wait, its legal for a mob to block public roads in France?
Does this mean that Oracle will be producing a Java plugin thats compatible with Chrome???
Aside from the issues of self-signed certificates and strict requirements on whitelisting this might actually make it possible for me to use Chrome to do my job (which involves connecting to remote KVM/iDRAC/ILO systems which require a Java client).
Otherwise, yeah no way Oracle, no one is going to install Java any more if they are using Chrome and don't really REALLY need Java (in which case they'll use a different browser).
In other words, if Oracle doesn't produce a non-NPAPI plugin, then client side Java will be in the wastebasket of history soon; its only a matter of time before its no longer supported in other browsers than Chrome.
Top Ten Things Overheard At The ANSI C Draft Committee Meetings: (5) All right, who's the wiseguy who stuck this trigraph stuff in here?
