TomOfTTB

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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I think a large part of this is that people on the Left let themselves get too emotional about things and it leads to disorganization and public embarrasement. I once spoke to a Republican strategist that told me the greatest thing Ronald R
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I disagree with him here. I'm all for truths that serve the public good and I support most whistle blowers. The problem with this recent Wikileaks release is there was data in it that did a lot of damage while providing no public good. Th
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General IT ============= * I think the biggest trend is we’ll see computing further redefined. As tablets, Chrome based netbooks and more advanced smartphones flood into the market we’re going to see a bunch of people who realize they just
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
If you really believe there's no use case for ChromeOS I think you're interacting with a very small subset of people. I'll be the first to admit it probably isn't appropriate for power users. But most users aren't power users and those peo
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I think you make a point that’s over looked here. As much as it’s PC to portray men and women as completely equal I think men who witness this behavior have a greater responsibility to step in. Our society has always defined “being a man”
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Well again I go back to the point I raised in my first post on this thread which is you have to consider intent. The whole point of a post like this is to try to re-frame the topic in the minds of people who don't yet agree with you. So wh
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You're speaking in platitudes. You say... "That's what it means to "conquer" fear: to control it, rather than letting it control you." Well I'm sorry but that's silly in practical application. Fear does control us. I don't cross the stre
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> How much liberty are you willing to give up to prevent automobile accidents? children drowning in swimming pools? I'm willing to give up the liberty to not wear a seat belt and to not go as fast as I want to prevent the majority of ac
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I'm glad you posted this. I think the Salon article frames this as something it wasn't. This wasn't the audience objecting to "art" it was the company realizing they'd promoted the discussion as something it wasn't and wanting to keep its
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I don’t find this kind of thing helpful. The question on things like the TSA policies is one of degree and not absolutes. So his claim that we should “conquer our fears because they are the real problem” doesn’t hold a lot of weight with m
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They're what we would consider a "free country" yet in regards to the Internet they act like a Totalitarian Government. Which puts the focus on those actions.
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His point isn't completely off in that "California is going bankrupt" is a much better news story than the truth which is the state is just deeply troubled. That said the problem with this article is it basically uses Silicon Valley to prop
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Practice is absolutely the best thing to do but this little trick worked for me in my early days so I thought I'd pass it on. Get someone you're really close to like a best friend or a spouse and have them sit in the absolute middle of the
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The problem is the community can't really do anything about it. Without the ability to downvote a topic all you can do is watch and hope others don't upvote a story like that. Which itself is a problem because the threshold is so low. By
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That's like saying "Why make the iPhone when everyone's already happy with their Motorola Razrs"
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I'm not sure the experiences are that different. mmastrac says his spike was during the broadcast. But the author of the post didn't own the domain during any of the broadcasts. He watched the show a half an hour after it aired in his tim
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First the "successful underdog" phenomenon is common in these shows. Look at any one of these reality shows and there's always someone who gets "picked on" by the judges (because they're in way over their head) and gets pity votes because
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The important point in my above post is "reinvest the profit" By doing so it acts as a continual no-interest loan. Which saves the Government on the interest they'd have to pay if they borrowed from someone seeking profit. (The easiest way
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
This is of no intellectual value for a few reasons... 1. There are millionaires who occupy every part of the political system. So it's not news that some want higher taxes and not relevant unless they can somehow prove they are in the maj
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I see where the author is coming from but I think there’s a much more insidious problem that’s “destroying America”. “Fake Work” managers are incompetent. But in my time consulting I much preferred the “fake work” manager who was just tryi
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I'm not sure that's true. Civil Disobedience is a tool to draw attention to a broken system. So in the 1950s and 1960s I don't believe most white Americans realized segregation was a problem (remember segregation was largely gone from the
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> The problem is that it is easier to jump to a conclusion than it is to stop and think. I think the problem is that our society gives in to stupid people if they scream loud enough. There always has been and always will be fools in th
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On the video over lay I actually meant overlaying dynamic text onto video which was wan more of a pain than I ever imagined it could be. As for your other points I don't disagree there are other options from the various browsers (Mozilla be
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Microsoft is being foolish about Silverlight so you might be right but on the facts themselves you are just wrong. HTML5 has gotten to the point where I think we can safely assume there won't be major new features added. Meaning HTML5 won'
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I don't disagree with your points but I think you're just clarifying the question. The issue here is what to do with those problems and whether it is moral for the Government to forcibly remove wealth from people and give it to other peopl
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Your argument isn't logically consistent. Whatever justification you use the argument is the same: You think the government should be able to decide what people's contributions are worth and act as an intermediary between the person gettin
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There is just so much wrong with this article I don't have time to really list it all. But the bottom line is the author fundamentally misunderstands Apple. They DON'T WANT TO BE MICROSOFT! They don't want to be a platform company. They
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I don’t mean to be a downer but I’m not sure how productive this is. I applaud his wanting to jump start something but this is a huge project. Think about it. Just because the drivers let your computer see a hand doesn’t mean your compute
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But the question is whether the risk of catastrophic consequences due to AGW out weighs the certainty of the economic impact. Lomborg isn't asking for certainty on AGW (which would be impossible) he's simply arguing the equation has become
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That’s what I love about Lomborg’s argument. The Global Warming alarmists get by with weak science by saying their preliminary findings appear to be right and there’s no time to debate any further because the world will end if we don’t act

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