but it's just, like it mostly is when people whine about 'political correctness', that Top Gear was a show that capitalized on having an arsehole as a presenter while being watched by arseholes which were glad to see an arsehole not being sacked for being an arsehole. Until he was, of course.
... given that (at least in countries other than the US, including, but probably not limited to, UK and Germany) Amazon's search engine doesn't even let you combine two search words with a logical 'and', generating dozens and hundreds of result pages full of the stupidest stuff. Even more funny is that it claims it does, while it has been that way for many years...
Because, at least here in Europe, there simply is no other phone with a hardware keyboard. Not even Motorola marketed their Photon Q here. Thing is, I'd always prefer a design like Motorola's to the BlackBerry, with the keyboard on the small side, and I'd prefer a smaller phone, too, but the Priv is still is better than no hardware keyboard at all...
Probably going to buy a used one, though, since new ones are too expensive indeed.
Thing is, there actually are people who choose their reading based on content, not on what format the content comes in. If I want or need a book that's only available electronically with DRM, I surely won't let the digital rights mafia and the restrictions they impose on people keep me from reading what I want or need to read. Stories like the one in TFA simply confirm that my established procedures for downloading purchased e-books and for organizing my electronic library are perfectly appropriate.
Many years ago, there was a law in Germany, and I believe it is still effective, which explicitly allowed people to break the copy protection of a legitimately bought software product (like CD-ROM copy protections or dongle enforcements) if necessary for being able to put that software to its designated use. Unfortunately, as far as I can see there never even was a discussion whether such law should apply to digital content, too, and the current ruling in Germany is, while to make a limited amount of personal copies, e.g. for family and friends, actually is protected by law as a basic consumer's right, it is defined as criminal as soon as copy protection has to be cracked or circumvented to do so...
The information presented here is, indeed, grossly miseading. There is no such thing as an employer's right to monitor private communications in the EU; on the contrary, at leastmin some European countries, like, say, Germany, illegitimately monitoring an employee's private communocation may actually land someone in jail.
As some others recommended, I use my own IMAP server – both for holding my complete mail archive (I once used the aid4mail tool to transfer my mail client based archive from Thunderbird to the IMAP server) and for continuously receiving (fetching) current e-mail from every active mail account I have. It is the one point of access for my email, whether I'm at home or on the road, from whatever device, and I have access to every single mail I have ever received or written (and not discarded...) from wherever I might be. Personally, I haven't implemented strong safety measures yet, actually I'm running hmailserver on a Windows machine which isn't really what I would call a wise solution, but so far it works perfectly well, as long as the server's internet connection is alive...
Sorry for double-posting. I still find Slashdot's mobile interface a massive PITA. Right now I even was logged out and reduced to AC just by switching to the desktop version...
Might very well be, since "cultural marxism" is a political fighting word predominantly (and deogatorily) used by antihumanist right-wing activists who neither know much about culture nor about marxism. Cf. Anders Breivik.
Might very well be, since "cultural marxism" is a political fighting word used derogatorily by antihimanist right-wing activists who neither know culture nor marxism, like Anders Breivik.
Maas' statement is to be seen in the light of recent events. Following a larger-than-usual wave of refugees, there has been a major outbreak of racist uproar in (mostly eastern) Germany, not only on the Net, but on the streets, too, with groups of neonazi extremists allied with so-called "concerned citizens" demonstrating, shouting hate and sometimes throwing stones or bottles in front of refugee hostels, and a new arson attack on a refugee hostel every other day (most of them, until now, having been empty at the time of the crime, with no refugees being hurt yet, but I fear that's just a matter of time). German government seems to very, very slowly notice that this comes as a result of a development both their domestic and foreign policies over the last 25 years have some responsibility for.
"The only appropriate sexual dialogue between tech workers" IS none at all, as long as there's just a slim chance someone might be offended, and it's stupidly immature not to get that in one's head, and as long a such immature offenders constitute a significant portion of tech workers, organizations like the Ada Institute are totally needed.
... to denounce socialist ideas by giving the failed state-socialist states the same name as fascist states, thereby trying to blur the crucial differences between both. The "totalitarian theory" that makes such an equation does not seek knowledge about both concepts, it intends a relativization of facist and, significantly, National Socialist crimes.
Yugoslavia was neither, as someone already corrected, totalitarian, the way the Soviet Union or other East Bloc state-socialist nations might have been called, nor even, for that matter, member of the East Bloc at all. Yugoslavia was a non-aligned country, and not just any of them, but one of the five founders of the Non-Aligned Movement of states (NAM).
No one questions that things have been going wrong in Greece for decades.
The problem is, completely regardless of whose fault it is, the conditions now imposed on Greece will strangulate Greek economy even further and thereby make the back payment of their debts even more improbable then it used to be. The Syriza idea of a haircut combined with other measures to leave room for the Greek economy to recuperate would, on the other hand, have increased the probability.
But that wouldn't have given the rich parts of Europe, most important Germany, the opportunity to plunder the remains of Greek property.
Which is, by the way, what renowned economists like Krugman and Stiglitz say, too.
Problem is, the conditions will continue to even further strangulate Greek economy, so that an eventual back payment of Greece's debts will become even less probable.
But the conditions, and that's the one major reason Germany kept insisting on them, will ensure that western European capital will be able to totally and completely plunder what's left of Greek property, while at the same time Germany's hegemony within Europe will be further strengthened.
The 'agreement' that was reached today is a declaration of war to the Greek people, and it is the defeat and the end of the once so promising project called Syriza.
"Wir schaffen es, ohne Waffen-SS" – a satirical comment dating back to the sixties, meaning 'we'll manage it [to subdue the world] without the military', was never more applicable to Germany than today.
I wouldn't expect the Greek people to go along without struggle now, though. Somehow I think today's 'agreement' might not have been the last word.
(Disclaimer: I'm German, but not a tiny bit proud of it.)
Yeah, like all issues which needed to be dealt with, to reach the moderate level of civilization we at least have reached, used to be non-issues for the privileged asshole majorities of their time who thought it was their natural right to boss others around. No, sir; we, and by that I explicitly mean the male part of the civilized population, too, will continue to civilize those who insist on uncivilized behavior wherever we meet them and especially where we meet them in person. At my workplace the likes of you and their big-mouthed anti-feminist nonsense they oh-so-bravely blare into forums wouldn't last even one day.
The good thing is, though, that male assholes who behave like those who seem to constitute a slashdot majority on topics like these, are probably already outsiders at most attractive (for any gender and orientation, not just non-male or non-straight) workplaces and will more and more become so. Everyone's entitled to their nerdiness, and while many a nerd's antihumanist attitude may be explained by unfair behaviour the world did show to them at some point in their lives, that of course doesn't make their antihumanist attitude (like the extremist, antifeminist and misogynist hate they literally pour into forums like this) any more acceptable than it is, i.e. not at all.
Some other secret societies wouldn't have _sued_ such a person... Then again, a more decisive action would have probably not gone too well with 'philantropic' and 'social'...
What about those rumors saying Windows 10 was made to stay, with continual updates instead of new major versions every now and then, and a possible introduction of a subscription scheme?
The basic office-type products for Linux still kind of suck. I've been using them since the StarOffice/SunOffice days, and now use LibreOffice
My personal experience is quite contrary. Both at home and on the job (although most of the time it wasn't on Linux), I've been using the OpenOffice/LibreOffice line of products since StarWriter 3.0, which was the predecessor of StarOffice, long before Sun bought the Hamburg, Germany, based software company Star Division GmbH, and back then already I liked it much better than MS Word because of its better usability, its much more straight-forward and logical handling and its much more logical and sophisticated styles and style sheets concept. While the package lost a lot in the transition from StarOffice 5.2 to OpenOffice 1.0, I still like it much more than every Microsoft Office incarnation, the latest of which I find to be the worst in usability I've ever seen in any office suite. Unfortunately, for some parts of my work I have to use MS Office, and I'm quite sure I won't get used to it until I die.
An explicit naming of complaints seems to be hard to impossible to find, but there indeed were complaints coming from all departments. On the other hand, there are always complaints, and there would have been complaints if everything ran on Windows, too. What's happening now is that a few of the people currently responsible, who by pure chance happen to be adversaries to the Linux migration from the beginning, want to re-evaluate. Many council members still are in favour of Linux, though, and they could very well still be the majority.
You're factually right, of course, except for the religion part. Indeed, it's worse than religion, because you can always free yourself of religion, while on the other side and for the time being, capitalism is the one currently available world operating system, wherein the only thing keeping everything going (including the world itself) is profit – until the world finds another, better operating system.
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Yes, except neither of the Pythons was an arsehole or would have punched an underling because of not serving him well enough.
but it's just, like it mostly is when people whine about 'political correctness', that Top Gear was a show that capitalized on having an arsehole as a presenter while being watched by arseholes which were glad to see an arsehole not being sacked for being an arsehole. Until he was, of course.
... given that (at least in countries other than the US, including, but probably not limited to, UK and Germany) Amazon's search engine doesn't even let you combine two search words with a logical 'and', generating dozens and hundreds of result pages full of the stupidest stuff. Even more funny is that it claims it does, while it has been that way for many years...
Because, at least here in Europe, there simply is no other phone with a hardware keyboard. Not even Motorola marketed their Photon Q here. Thing is, I'd always prefer a design like Motorola's to the BlackBerry, with the keyboard on the small side, and I'd prefer a smaller phone, too, but the Priv is still is better than no hardware keyboard at all...
Probably going to buy a used one, though, since new ones are too expensive indeed.
Thing is, there actually are people who choose their reading based on content, not on what format the content comes in. If I want or need a book that's only available electronically with DRM, I surely won't let the digital rights mafia and the restrictions they impose on people keep me from reading what I want or need to read. Stories like the one in TFA simply confirm that my established procedures for downloading purchased e-books and for organizing my electronic library are perfectly appropriate.
Many years ago, there was a law in Germany, and I believe it is still effective, which explicitly allowed people to break the copy protection of a legitimately bought software product (like CD-ROM copy protections or dongle enforcements) if necessary for being able to put that software to its designated use. Unfortunately, as far as I can see there never even was a discussion whether such law should apply to digital content, too, and the current ruling in Germany is, while to make a limited amount of personal copies, e.g. for family and friends, actually is protected by law as a basic consumer's right, it is defined as criminal as soon as copy protection has to be cracked or circumvented to do so...
The information presented here is, indeed, grossly miseading. There is no such thing as an employer's right to monitor private communications in the EU; on the contrary, at leastmin some European countries, like, say, Germany, illegitimately monitoring an employee's private communocation may actually land someone in jail.
..., and because public internet exists for two decades now, there are no stupid or even wrong text books left in the world. Oh wait.
As some others recommended, I use my own IMAP server – both for holding my complete mail archive (I once used the aid4mail tool to transfer my mail client based archive from Thunderbird to the IMAP server) and for continuously receiving (fetching) current e-mail from every active mail account I have. It is the one point of access for my email, whether I'm at home or on the road, from whatever device, and I have access to every single mail I have ever received or written (and not discarded...) from wherever I might be. Personally, I haven't implemented strong safety measures yet, actually I'm running hmailserver on a Windows machine which isn't really what I would call a wise solution, but so far it works perfectly well, as long as the server's internet connection is alive...
Sorry for double-posting. I still find Slashdot's mobile interface a massive PITA. Right now I even was logged out and reduced to AC just by switching to the desktop version...
Might very well be, since "cultural marxism" is a political fighting word predominantly (and deogatorily) used by antihumanist right-wing activists who neither know much about culture nor about marxism. Cf. Anders Breivik.
Might very well be, since "cultural marxism" is a political fighting word used derogatorily by antihimanist right-wing activists who neither know culture nor marxism, like Anders Breivik.
Maas' statement is to be seen in the light of recent events. Following a larger-than-usual wave of refugees, there has been a major outbreak of racist uproar in (mostly eastern) Germany, not only on the Net, but on the streets, too, with groups of neonazi extremists allied with so-called "concerned citizens" demonstrating, shouting hate and sometimes throwing stones or bottles in front of refugee hostels, and a new arson attack on a refugee hostel every other day (most of them, until now, having been empty at the time of the crime, with no refugees being hurt yet, but I fear that's just a matter of time). German government seems to very, very slowly notice that this comes as a result of a development both their domestic and foreign policies over the last 25 years have some responsibility for.
"The only appropriate sexual dialogue between tech workers" IS none at all, as long as there's just a slim chance someone might be offended, and it's stupidly immature not to get that in one's head, and as long a such immature offenders constitute a significant portion of tech workers, organizations like the Ada Institute are totally needed.
... to denounce socialist ideas by giving the failed state-socialist states the same name as fascist states, thereby trying to blur the crucial differences between both. The "totalitarian theory" that makes such an equation does not seek knowledge about both concepts, it intends a relativization of facist and, significantly, National Socialist crimes.
Yugoslavia was neither, as someone already corrected, totalitarian, the way the Soviet Union or other East Bloc state-socialist nations might have been called, nor even, for that matter, member of the East Bloc at all. Yugoslavia was a non-aligned country, and not just any of them, but one of the five founders of the Non-Aligned Movement of states (NAM).
No one questions that things have been going wrong in Greece for decades.
The problem is, completely regardless of whose fault it is, the conditions now imposed on Greece will strangulate Greek economy even further and thereby make the back payment of their debts even more improbable then it used to be. The Syriza idea of a haircut combined with other measures to leave room for the Greek economy to recuperate would, on the other hand, have increased the probability.
But that wouldn't have given the rich parts of Europe, most important Germany, the opportunity to plunder the remains of Greek property.
Which is, by the way, what renowned economists like Krugman and Stiglitz say, too.
Problem is, the conditions will continue to even further strangulate Greek economy, so that an eventual back payment of Greece's debts will become even less probable.
But the conditions, and that's the one major reason Germany kept insisting on them, will ensure that western European capital will be able to totally and completely plunder what's left of Greek property, while at the same time Germany's hegemony within Europe will be further strengthened.
The 'agreement' that was reached today is a declaration of war to the Greek people, and it is the defeat and the end of the once so promising project called Syriza.
"Wir schaffen es, ohne Waffen-SS" – a satirical comment dating back to the sixties, meaning 'we'll manage it [to subdue the world] without the military', was never more applicable to Germany than today.
I wouldn't expect the Greek people to go along without struggle now, though. Somehow I think today's 'agreement' might not have been the last word.
(Disclaimer: I'm German, but not a tiny bit proud of it.)
Yeah, like all issues which needed to be dealt with, to reach the moderate level of civilization we at least have reached, used to be non-issues for the privileged asshole majorities of their time who thought it was their natural right to boss others around. No, sir; we, and by that I explicitly mean the male part of the civilized population, too, will continue to civilize those who insist on uncivilized behavior wherever we meet them and especially where we meet them in person. At my workplace the likes of you and their big-mouthed anti-feminist nonsense they oh-so-bravely blare into forums wouldn't last even one day.
The good thing is, though, that male assholes who behave like those who seem to constitute a slashdot majority on topics like these, are probably already outsiders at most attractive (for any gender and orientation, not just non-male or non-straight) workplaces and will more and more become so. Everyone's entitled to their nerdiness, and while many a nerd's antihumanist attitude may be explained by unfair behaviour the world did show to them at some point in their lives, that of course doesn't make their antihumanist attitude (like the extremist, antifeminist and misogynist hate they literally pour into forums like this) any more acceptable than it is, i.e. not at all.
Some other secret societies wouldn't have _sued_ such a person... Then again, a more decisive action would have probably not gone too well with 'philantropic' and 'social'...
What about those rumors saying Windows 10 was made to stay, with continual updates instead of new major versions every now and then, and a possible introduction of a subscription scheme?
..., than perhaps it could be truly labeled ground-breaking?
The basic office-type products for Linux still kind of suck. I've been using them since the StarOffice/SunOffice days, and now use LibreOffice
My personal experience is quite contrary. Both at home and on the job (although most of the time it wasn't on Linux), I've been using the OpenOffice/LibreOffice line of products since StarWriter 3.0, which was the predecessor of StarOffice, long before Sun bought the Hamburg, Germany, based software company Star Division GmbH, and back then already I liked it much better than MS Word because of its better usability, its much more straight-forward and logical handling and its much more logical and sophisticated styles and style sheets concept. While the package lost a lot in the transition from StarOffice 5.2 to OpenOffice 1.0, I still like it much more than every Microsoft Office incarnation, the latest of which I find to be the worst in usability I've ever seen in any office suite. Unfortunately, for some parts of my work I have to use MS Office, and I'm quite sure I won't get used to it until I die.
An explicit naming of complaints seems to be hard to impossible to find, but there indeed were complaints coming from all departments. On the other hand, there are always complaints, and there would have been complaints if everything ran on Windows, too. What's happening now is that a few of the people currently responsible, who by pure chance happen to be adversaries to the Linux migration from the beginning, want to re-evaluate. Many council members still are in favour of Linux, though, and they could very well still be the majority.
You're factually right, of course, except for the religion part. Indeed, it's worse than religion, because you can always free yourself of religion, while on the other side and for the time being, capitalism is the one currently available world operating system, wherein the only thing keeping everything going (including the world itself) is profit – until the world finds another, better operating system.