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Comment Re:"The Guns of August" by Barbara Tuchman (Score 1) 312

Just read Margaret Macmillan's essay The Rhyme of History wherein she mentions Kennedy's actions in the Cuban Missile Crisis:

"The young and relatively untried U.S. president was urged by virtually his entire top military leadership as well as many of the civilians in his administration to confront the Soviet Union vigorously, up to the point of invading Cuba and so risking an all-out nuclear war. Standing up to them, he opted instead for negotiations with Moscow and, in the end, preserved the peace. It was perhaps fortunate that he had just read Barbara Tuchman’s great The Guns of August and was very mindful of the ways nations can blunder into war. "

Comment Re:TRUST is supreme (Score 1) 140

"disgraced themselves at some time and somehow survived"

They survived because for a large number of people trust isn't supreme: they are liars, they lie to themselves and to others, and when liars discover that a company they use has lied, well, deep down they know it's not that bad. They like their Volkswagen, nay love their Volkswagen, and so internal logic concludes it's not worth changing car companies over some lie that hardly affected them. For these people, and to an extent all people, trust is set right next to convenience and perception of worth.

Comment Re:When will Tesla lose the name "Autopilot"? (Score 1) 126

Autopilot's other closely linked connotation is what we've seen in many movies/tv/novels, "who's flying, don't worry I've got the autopilot on". People know that autopilot doesn't fly a plane from take-off to landing all by itself, the pilot is needed.

How about fully autonomous, autonomous, driver-less, self-driving. New terms will be better and more accurate I believe than trying to keep Autopilot away from autos just because they're not fully self driving even when they pretty much act just like Autopilot does in aircraft.

These headlines aren't going away just because Tesla changes the name of the feature. And at this point, a change would give the public perception that something's wrong. Tesla has created the boilerplate public response: We've yet to determine if the Autopilot feature was engaged at the time. And please note: it's always a driver's responsibility to ensure the safe operation of the vehicle when Autopilot is engaged. Responsible journalists will always include that.

Comment Re:Gawker did a lot of good journalism (Score 1) 199

Gawker stopped being a tormentor of the Manhattan elite media years ago. Instead, “Whatever information we have, whatever insight we have, whatever knowledge we have, our impulse is to share it as quickly as possible, and sometimes with as little thought as possible,” Denton told me after we had settled into a small conference room. “Before you can think about it too much, just put it out there, just share it out there. I think that’s the essence of who we are.”

That's Nick Denton, early summer 2015, before the final verdict. OP's right, they did something stupid. Denton's not in jail, and his ability to dig up slime hasn't gone away. Beside, isn't there literally an army of SJW's with communications and journalism degrees swinging quixotically at everything money? That they don't have much says nothing about the health of our freedom of speech laws, and says everything about how hard it is to do real journalism.

Comment Re:Same issue as the Dan Rather/George W. Bush pap (Score 2) 186

TV journalists, and whistle blowers. A similar issue came up last month with government contractor whistle blower Reality Winners, who failed to realize every page from a color laser printer has an id pattern watermark. They're difficult to see without a loop and blue/black light. The printers I've used the pattern was in yellow, lower left corner of the page.

https://www.theatlantic.com/te...
https://www.eff.org/pages/list...

Comment Re:Whuffie scores anyone? (Score 2, Funny) 105

Communist China is leading the world in large scale human rights advocacy. China is healthy and growing and its large population demands the government be prepared and sensitive to human rights. Safely observing citizen actions and making necessary corrections to policy are two important concerns of the Chinese People's Government. China's most vocal critic is the U.S. government, who most recently was revealed to be conducting large scale intrusive surveillance on its own citizens. Such a government should never be accusing other governments of rights abuse.

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