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Er...are you suggesting that the beginning of recorded history was somewhere near 1816? Or did you just put two random sentences together? :-)

"I would say it's the opposite - that if everyone has their mistakes on parade, then it' makes it easier for others can admit that they too aren't perfect"
 
There is absolutely no evidence that this is hapenning. in fact there is a lot of evidence that people simply stops at the top information they find and retain negative information far easier (bias). Look there is a reason stuff like susperstition exists, post hoc or ad hominem are used successfully : because people bias toward the negative. Spread the negative the bias will stay, but a LOT of people will get fucked. The only way it would work would be if *absolutely everybody* would be hit by this, for decades. Not going to happen.

Seeing what Microsoft has done in the last years and how the amrket is going , they will almost certainly go for the following :

* subscription based, forget the 15$ or whatever you paid for minecraft, they will ask 1$99 every month.
* separate set and special mods which allows more than color/form only microsoft, and only for money
* everybody else relegated to basic coloring, texture and form mod, no "command" block type mod adding new function.
* not possible anymore to have your independent server. After all you could do some stuff which would tarnish the image of MC2.0 "microsoft". And there is the money from the server subscription, like 20$ a month.
* API even more obsfucated than for MC 1.0, but with DMCA take down if you deobsfucate it and attempt to add your own command mod
* going away from Java


Yeah i am quite a cynic.

The problem with that logic is that the sentence is actually slightly inaccurate. Hillary comes from a Republican family. She actually was an establishment Republican before she married Bill and was essentially forced to switch parties. So what this really tells you is how far to the right the Republican Party has moved.

Assuming you hadn't already noticed this by little things like them decrying Richard Nixon's health care scheme as a Communist Government takeover, or insisting that political positions held by Ronald Regan are a sure sign of anti-Americanism.

Are you sure? Because they actually did this exact thing, and not only do I not see you saying anything of the sort, I don't even see any indication that you remember it happening. In fact, they uncovered emails from Rove specifically instructing White House employees to break the law and use personal email, and some where he actually complained when people didn't comply. So this wasn't ignorance or oversight, it was active malice.

From where I sit, it looks like there's only a big stink now because the alternate Republican media establishment wants to attack what looks like might be their POTUS opponent in 2016, and this is the best they could come up with. We know for a fact that if this was a Republican it would quickly be forgotten, because it recently was, and you just demonstrated that you'd forgotten it.

If you have mod points, and you post on a Slashdot article, you may no longer use mod points on any post in that article (and any previous moderation you have done on posts on that article are undone).

IMHO it would probably be sufficient to do that on a thread basis, rather than for the whole article, but that's the system /. uses.

This is not about how your own application react to a file. this is how the operating system *does*. There is a convention in the operating system, particularly windows, that a .gif will be tried to be displayed as a picture and a .html as a web page. Your application may *chose* to interpret it as music for all we care, but the operating system will react by default as described.

This is why displaying and showing this is an executable is important. Although nowadays the windows operating system should warn you you are about to run an executable.

Rather than spend all the money, 20% will be refunded. And a software source and PCB will be offered. It is a failed kickstarter, but not as bad as those which went home with the money breaking all promised delivery. Like moulyneux and godus for example.

From a 1990 essay comes the insight
"The ability to get ahead in an organization is simply another talent, like the ability to play chess, paint pictures, do coronary bypass operations or pick pockets. There are some people who are extraordinarily good at manipulating- organizations to serve their own ends. The Russians, who have suffered under such people for centuries, have a name for them-- apparatchiks. It was an observer of apparatchiks who coined the maxim, 'The scum rises to the top.' "

http://bobshea.net/empire_of_t...

It is as insightful in its own way as "The Mythical Man-Month".

Shame you burned any mod points you might have posting this, or I'd direct you to my other answer , which hits a lot of these same points.

I will mention that the competition theory is only one theory of how Europe got where it is. The one I prefer is that it was all about information supremacy (Europe perfected printing presses first, everyone else was stuck ludicrously expensive hand-copying, and it was game over. All your base are belong to us).

However, I think it is quite true that people are wired to organize their universe as "us vs. them". Political units are defined in opposition to other units, and without them, people just form smaller units to squabble with. This isn't necessarily a good thing though. In many cases it is downright evil, and should be fought against, but the first step is to realize it is human nature you are fighting against. In this respect, Trek was often aspirational, rather than being realistic. But even there, there had to be an "other": Klingons.

Didn't it say "3G *AND* LTE"? LTE usually refers to 4G.

This bit is wrong as well. In TOS the Federation was involved in sort of a "Cold War" with the Klingon Empire (mirroring the extant real-world political situation), and indications were that it wasn't always so cold, and likely wouldn't always stay that way. Even as an exploration vessel, the Enterprise was liberally equipped with weapons, and regularly needed to use them.

And truly there's nothing shocking about a group of independent polities banding together in the face of an external threat (the Klingons). Humans have a basic need to categorize into "us" and "them". External threats are how countries are made.