I think it did, if it didn’t work, then street and TV ads wouldn’t go much further than the stage described in one Colombo episode.
It works as well as the funding growth shows. One would think all of the Web and of TV and radio are full of ads, but the funding grows even more. This means ads work and humans obey.
Repeat: It’s a Latin word with no exclusive connection to Australia. And don’t try teaching others how to talk, especially when you are clearly wrong.
It’s a Latin word with no exclusive connection to Australia.
Has nothing to do at all with Australian culture.
Wrong. Australians (indigenous or not) don’t own Latin language, and the word means peoples that existed somewhere before colonizers.
Thus Aboriginal is a name and aboriginal is a descriptor.
It’s like superstitious people in Russia avoid calling anything “last”, using the word for “fringe” instead, and pretend that it’s impolite to use it.
Being 90% corrupt gives you more territories than being 99% corrupt
Dunno, in my childhood machine-translated things possessed some charm. Or when translations were by clueless people. Druids in Star Wars instead of droids, for example.
Were it 90% of what Pentagon did, the rest of the world bar China and India would be US territories.
- Grok, summarize our civilization’s positive achievements in the last century.
- Heil Hitler!
- Test passed.
Lossy compression of sunlight?
Actually that’s exactly how it works, never did it help against a weaponized technology to yell how immoral it is, while adopting it sometimes did.
By dying I meant exactly this. Dying in the sense of becoming useless for democratic nations.
Also why would you tie together democracy and bureaucracies in your complaint? They’re not even remotely relevant to each other.
Representative democracy.
In a hypothetical direct democracy you have the voting population, the bureaucracy and the tasks at hand. The voters make decisions, the bureaucracy does the work but has no deciding power, and in general things are not so bad. Supposedly. If the bureaucracy doesn’t obey, then the solutions are different, one of them is not having a bureaucracy - filling all government worker roles by perpetual rotation of citizens, pseudo-randomly chosen from among consenting citizens (maybe with some limitations like, eh, having competencies for those roles).
In a representative democracy you have another group, representatives. Who are supposed to just integrate what their voters would do, but in fact merge with the bureaucracy to form an unholy tumor. That would happen very slowly in the olden days, and the efficiency gain from having professional bureaucracy was notable, but in the modernity with the Internet and modern computing means that’ll happen even in a new representative democracy in a few years or months.
That’s because the government can manipulate voters with modern tech to get the results it needs, and by it I mean the elite, and by the elite I mean people near the point in society where the bureaucracy, the representatives and the money meet.
So, now I’m going to describe a pipe dream.
If the government (meaning the representatives and the bureaucrats) has very high rotation rate, and every citizen has roughly an equal (ideally) chance of working in every role in it, then that won’t happen. Voted in representatives are just not fit for this task because of arithmetic of a vote (ranked choice with positive and negative votes included, attention limitations and ballot size even if it’s a webpage of 1001 variants are a thing). Sortitioned representatives are ideally fit, but in practice sortition is hard to do right, one can fake it.
But representatives are not strictly speaking necessary for voting on already suggested laws, this doesn’t require qualifications, the only reason they were needed for that was because of connectivity in the old times. For discussions one can elect representatives to councils, which would then only vote on suggesting a law to be decided by all voters, for example. A council dealing with military shouldn’t deal with tech, and so on, elected in parallel. Each council member can be recalled by a vote of their constituency, started by, say, collecting enough signatures for that. Since councils only have one level, Stalin’s approach to coming to power in the USSR won’t work through this.
Now bureaucrats and any qualified work in the government. These, yes, require qualifications, but far less than people loving authority tend to pretend. So other parallel councils (a council for such HR management for military permanent personnel wouldn’t be the same as the council for suggesting laws about military) can be elected to then fill technical roles (secretaries, IT support and janitors, but also, ahem, military and such) with consenting qualified citizens. With very firm requirements for rotation, ideally calculated so that almost every citizen would have experience in a few areas of government work and politics when they turn 40.
And maybe similar separate councils for managing finances.
Ideally also the role of councils in lawmaking would be limited to optimization, so to suggest a law one wouldn’t need a successful council vote, N citizens supporting it in some incubator would be enough. One could have a fallback for councils of other types the same way, enough supporters for action -> common vote.
Why I’m calling this direct democracy - well, because this doesn’t give any exclusive power to representatives. This makes a lot of entities with very little power, using a significant portion of the population participating actively, thus preventing a capture of the government by interested groups.
The arithmetic of voted in representatives is still not good, but at least there’s too many of them and for too many different kinds of work and with mandated rotation, so political technologies become less useful. I would also fill half the places in every council via ranked choice vote (with “plus” and “minus” votes like in social media) and half via sortition by pseudo-random selection based on combination of personal identity numbers of all consenting citizens in a constituency.
OK, too long a post. I hope it explains that I meant entrenched elites where none are intended by design.
That’s why Seagate is the last word in the title.
You’d go broke. Of course it’s all Linux, family archives and DNA test data, BTC blockchain, backed up FOSS projects, archives of Wikipedia, Project Gutenberg and OpenStreetMap, and of course - POVRay renders.
I think both.
Danger in that world was on the sidewalks and unintended. Danger in this world is on the main pathways the most, and intended by its administrators.
Edgy vibes of that time seemed more like when you reinforce your right to call a president of your country a little bitch. Or like how it wasn’t traditionally welcomed to physically punish kids in many cultures in the Caucasus - because teaching fear of punishment also piggybacks teaching fear of enemy. BTW, this was also a principle in Dragomirov’s writings on how teaching should be done in the military ; his approaches to actual warfare were kinda archaic even in his own time (basically “straight at them” bayonet shock attacks), but the parts on didactics are good.
The pop music I hated then and hate now.
So yes.
Funny, I miss that exactly. The feeling of spring\summer air and the fragrance of jasmine\lilac\linden\freshly mowed grass and the clouds, and ICQ animations with cats scratching your screen and “hasta la vista baby” and all that, and the Web when it was actually hypertext on hundreds of pages hand-crafted all with real people.
And yeah, going to friends to play Tekken, and them coming to play SW: RotS. Watching “A Nightmare on Elm Street” in a summer camp. Older girls watching “Charmed”.
I thought “gnostic vibe”, but yes.
It’s not always true, but generally copyright violations are in the tail of the priorities’ list.
If the Russian alternative to GFW happens (apparently they are building that, but it isn’t satisfactory yet), I think the problem will resolve itself.
Close down the shop you mean? Can you do Russia too? I think I’ve even heard state TV use Babylon V soundtracks once.
One can rather say that the French too prepared for Germans trying to
, except when it became visible that they are not putting all their effort into that, it also became imperative for Germans to act offensively. They couldn’t afford a long standoff without France actually bleeding.
And here it became apparent that French politicians were not prepared for France actually bleeding at all.