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Because wearing glasses makes me feel insecure.
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Yes, a person with disabilities can be ridiculed and feel like crap. A fat one can too. Also one with glasses, long hair, or long nose (or very short, let's include them too, it's the PC thing to do).
Where do you draw the "disadvantage" line?
As much as you are being offended when people are using a series of letters that forms certain words, so do I when people act like irresponsible children putting blame on random words.
> Call it what it actually is: short sighted, greedy, foolish, etc. Don't use a word that puts down people with disabilities.
No. Language is a liging thing and the meaning of a word can change overtime.
"Greedy" is not the word that applies in this case. Nor is "short sighted". This is a retarted and dangerous behavior, and you should not be afraid to call it for what it is.
See above example with the car and try to imaging is the following happened: you have to drive immediately to a hospital and your car doesn't start because your tire was changed by a non-authorized service.
"Greedy" and "short sighted" are not the words that come in mind. It's a trully retarted and dangerous decision, initially driven by greed (because let's make computers like black boxes, no-one can open it, no-one can mess with it).
The sad thing in this (politics) is that no one gives a sh!t about real people and real situations besides imaginary currency.
Over the last few years, while Greece sinks slowly due to financial situation, IMF and Germany won't back on austerity measures demands. Even if, in reality, those measures are making the country sink even deeper due to very low income and chopping away peoples' pensions.
As I live in Greece, I can say for sure that the situation is getting worse and worse over time. While Greece took huge loans over the last few years, almost everything went to fuel German and French banks so they won't collapse. Very little -if anything- was used to help the situation. But not even those same countries acknowledge that fact. They demand "their" money that used to fuel their banks. Smart thing (not).
Of course I could be a troll and mention that after WWII Germany received a lot of help to be able to reconstruct the country, even if they slaughtered millions across Europe. But that's politics. ;)
Personaly, I'm tired of all that bs. Europe is _not_ a union and this situation is getting out of hand. Supposedly "friendly" countries demanding everything from another member of the "union" is not what Europe was -supposedly- all about.
At least with a new government that is able to say the word 'no' for a change, almost anyone can see the true face of European "union".
Introduced to his music ver yearly in my age. Loved (and still love) this kind of music (even if I live outside the states). After him, I discovered and appreciated so many artists.
His music will live on, reminding people why expressing yourself through arts is so great.
While as a developer I can understand _why_ companies scream against adblock (and that applies also to simple blogs/etc), as a user I understand perfectly that this is their own fault completely.
After so many years of companies serving pop-ups and ads that were not only huge in size (pre-adsl era, yes I'm old :p) but also giving multiple seizures and brain aneurisms, the only sane option is to just disable everything until they find a sane model (for example, something that's not as intrusive, something that does not cripple the site's layout nor it is so abstracting that messes up with the user's reading).
> Also coding in the browser has been a miserable experience.
Basically that ^.
Having tried some web IDEs, I can say it's not a pleasant situation when browser crashes or hangs.
Putting aside local tools or whatever, the editor must must be available at all times, with or without internet connection. At least that's my view. :)
I'm sitting in front of my keyboard for like 10 minutes trying to find where to start from... Honestly, I cannot.
> Can you imagine in the year 3,000, when the NSA's documents are ancient history, what kind of insight into the human condition, machinations, good guys, bad guys, plans, history, humanity can gain by seeing every single person's complete activity down to the second, down to when they were composing their thoughts?
Yes, it will be very pleasant - and exciting at the same time - to be able to view - and perhaps enjoy the same - activities of a person that searches for tentacle/eel porn.
I agree. The situation with "safety" is getting out of hand.
What could possibly be the danger from reading in a bus? Even if some car crashes with the bus, due to the mass of the bus, there's little chance of getting hurt, let alone the chance of getting killed from the book or something.
> Police who won't let children walk home from the park.
I suppose this is happening at the States? Can you provide some info on this? The only word to describe the above that comes to mind (at least for me) is alien. :)
Is this only about facebook tracking users via the like buttons on websites?
If so, I'm expecting the same reaction in the future about google analytics.
From the other hand, {facebook,google,random company} did not force someone to put the appropriate {buttons,code} in their site. Me thinks there's going to be some kind of settlement without too much fuss and they'll keep doing business as usual for an even more sucky web.
> If you want to discuss the collections programs, lets start with how you expect police to actually deal with modern criminals (ie: Swatters) if they didn't have the ability to track the location of their phone calls.
Notice "THEIR phone calls", not "EVERY phone calls".
Truth is, views like yours are clueless and/or dangerous and fail to see the big picture.
I'm sure you embrace the "I've got nothing to hide, so I don't care" stance. So yeah, fk the rest of the people, don't give a sh*t.
> Safety trumps all and there simply isn't a compelling need (that I can think of) that requires the need to tinker with the auto software.
So you won't have any problem in <x> years if all PCs are coming with default configuration 'cause "safety trumps all' and "you don't need to tinker with the auto software". You don't need to change your shell. You don't even _need_ a shell anymore. The _company_ will provide you with everything you need. And of course, no choice for what OS you're going to install.
I imagine an answer would be "but my PC isn't going to run over a child". No, but an insecure OS can cause you to lose all your credit balance and many more (which I imagine you can guess being an hn member). All that just because "you don't need to tinker with the auto software".
I'm sorry, but people with views like yours keep the world behind.
While it's not slavery in the traditional way, it sure is when you pay workers virtually nothing for a product that's overpriced.
Think a situtation where you'd be an administrator for Amazon and you're getting $10/day just because you live in <x> country, while your other _only_ option is to - as you said - "go away and grow some rice".
While this is a completely legal action, would you say that it's also ethical?
But no, whenever a f*cked up situation is not near our own precious asses, it doesn't matter. They can go out and grow some rice.
Shame though that neither common lisp or scheme are present.