I've had conservative friends try to convince me that a Trump presidency will not affect me directly and that I should not be worried, etc. They think a Trump presidency may even help me, with lower taxes, etc. I'm a white male living in the upper midwest. So, on the onset, it doesn't look like it will affect me in any way. Except... that I'm gay and I also work for a healthcare company.
While I am concerned about conservative, anti-gay justices being nominated to the Supreme Court, under Trump (especially while the GOP controls all of congress), I don't think the Supreme Court will repeal gay marriage. One particular Executive Order from President Obama, states that the federal government and its contractors cannot fire and employee because of his or her sexual orientation. This affects me, because the company I work for, is a government contractor and follows this order. If the Trump administration repeals this order (along with many others they have threatened to repeal), I could be fired for being openly gay.
Right after the election, the governor of my state talked to Mike Pence, who basically stated that our state shouldn't expect any more federal help with Medicaid. The company I work for, partially relies on Medicaid payments. While I'm not likely to get fired because of this, I likely will not receive much (if any) in the way of pay raises.
So, does a Trump administration directly affect me? Absolutely. Don't even get me started about my non-white partner.
It is going to be a rough 4 years (if he lasts that long).
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Trump has not expressed any racist statements; he expressed negative views of some illegal immigrants.
Of the top of my head, I remember Trump saying "Where is my African American?". Maybe that doesn't sound racist to you, but it sure does to a lot of people. Also, you seem to forget how he stated that the judge couldn't be fair in the Trump University case, because he was a Mexican. I'm sure there are more examples. His rhetoric was very racist at times. There is a reason white nationalists love him.
"IBM is betting big on cloud and other services, having spun off its hardware units like servers and PCs to Lenovo"
IBM still sells a lot of hardware. They mostly sell "big iron" stuff with higher profit margins than commodity Intel based servers. They still manufacture servers based on the Power processor, running AIX UNIX and IBMi (formerly AS/400). They still manufacture mainframes. Plus, they are still a big player in the enterprise storage server market. I'm guessing quite a number of patents still come from their hardware. Especially since it is mostly proprietary hardware, including the processors, etc. There wasn't much to patent (in comparison) in the Intel server and PC markets.
You are correct. Back in the day, companies like AMD, also had 80486 (or "486") and "386" processor chips. Intel couldn't patent the number. So they renamed the upcoming (at the time) 80586 chip as the "Pentium". The rest is history...
No, it's not an indicator of ignorance and stigma, it's an indicator of age. While growing up we'd hear about AIDS being spread, not HIV. Using the term HIV or HIV/AIDS didn't come until much later.
I call BS on this one. I grew up in the 70's and 80's. While the term AIDS did come out first (about 82), the virus that caused AIDS was labeled as HIV, in 86. I was there. I remember being told about HIV/AIDS when I was in high school and I knew the difference (and still do). You are/were ignorant and are just trying to cover your tracks.
This is so high in such a small portion of the population that the Red Cross and other blood donation organizations make that behavior a bar against donating blood. I've seen gay rights advocacy groups call for a lift on that ban to avoid the stigma and I fear for the future of humanity if they are successful.
There is no reason to continue the ban on homosexual's giving blood. Not all homosexuals are high risk, the blood is thoroughly tested now days, and do you really think every homosexual tells the truth about their sexuality when giving blood?
1. You get what you pay for. Yes, pSeries hardware costs a ton of $ (iSeries even more so). However, you get top notch hardware and an OS designed around the hardware. Much more stability, scalability and redundancy than any linux box than has been slapped together.
2. You evidently have never used any virtualization on a pSeries/AIX machine. AIX runs circles around VMware ESX, etc. Any resourse allocation can be changed on the fly without taking down any of the OS's involved in the reallocation. You can even setup scripts to change the allocations overnight and then return to normal during the day, or however you want to do it. Just to name one of the features. I would take a LPARed pSeries box any day over an ESX box.
Believe me, I fully understand what you are saying and I realize my comment didn't make sense. You took my comment WAY too seriously. It was suppose to be a joke.
Can we choose which OS to use? I would hate to be running anything from MS. Although the hospitals would love it, because millions of people would be in a short comma once a week...that is unless they rebooted every night.
It was meant to be a funny joke, but I'm sorry if you took it seriously. I wasn't really trying to complain....but, now that you mention it, I am salaried, so no, my company didn't pay me anything extra for the overtime I wasted updating our servers. Time that I could have used on other things...anyways, I digress and you'll probably chew me out again for complaining...:-)
The idea of WiFi on airplanes is awesome. I'm not sure about cell phones though. I just pray that the pilot isn't jabbering on a cell phone while trying to land and eat lunch.
I'm glad the government waisted my time. I got to spend more time at work prior to March 17 applying patches on servers, etc. Thank you, US government, I was so bored at work with nothing else to do prior to the new DST and to hear that is was a waste, really makes me feel good, especially about you.:-)
Why is it that creationist are considered "stupid"? I know a number of highly intelligent people who are creationists. Most fully understand evolution, how it works and have read Darwin's "Origin of Species". They just choose not to believe it. That doesn't make them "stupid".
I fully understand the reasons Bush went to war with Iraq. That doesn't mean I have to believe in or support his war.
You are correct in your description of theory and scientific theory and I fully agree with your analysis.
I realize that Intelligent Design is also a theory. However, for me it is a matter of belief. It is a matter of taking a "leap of faith" and believing that God exists and created the universe. I have no scientific proof of His existence and I never will. The only principles I have are the Bible and the experiences of what He has done in my life and the lives of others.
As far as the creationism vs. evolution debate, if either one was proven to be false, it would not change my faith in the creator God.
Actually, if you had been watching the news about evangelicals (besides the whole Ted Haggard thing) you would know that more and more evangelicals are also becoming environmentalists. Many believe that global warming is happening and they are standing side by side with the Sierra Club (and others) to help fix environmental problems. Many are conservative evangelicals that also believe in creationism, etc.
Its not really a matter of how easy or difficult evolution is to understand. Its more a matter of belief. I know a number of fundamentalist Christians who understand evolution, but don't believe in evolution.
An example: I understand Bush's reasons for attacking Iraq, but I don't believe in his reasons for attacking Iraq.:-)
I find it interesting that people on Slashdot (and elsewhere) follow the belief that if you believe in creationism and intelligent design that you are "stupid" and if you believe in evolution you are "smart". I know a number of highly educated people that believe in creationism. Evolution is a theory, not necessarily a fact. The same is also true for creationism. Being a Christian, I believe in intelligent design. I believe we were created by God. But, I don't really care how He did it. I don't really care if He used evolution or the creationism theory. I don't really care if the earth is 5000 years old or 5 billion years old. Either could be true, but in the long run, it doesn't matter. Believing in evolution or not, does not matter when my grandpa is dying or my friend gets divorced or my neighbor's house burns down, etc. It doesn't affect my day to day life.
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While I am concerned about conservative, anti-gay justices being nominated to the Supreme Court, under Trump (especially while the GOP controls all of congress), I don't think the Supreme Court will repeal gay marriage. One particular Executive Order from President Obama, states that the federal government and its contractors cannot fire and employee because of his or her sexual orientation. This affects me, because the company I work for, is a government contractor and follows this order. If the Trump administration repeals this order (along with many others they have threatened to repeal), I could be fired for being openly gay.
Right after the election, the governor of my state talked to Mike Pence, who basically stated that our state shouldn't expect any more federal help with Medicaid. The company I work for, partially relies on Medicaid payments. While I'm not likely to get fired because of this, I likely will not receive much (if any) in the way of pay raises.
So, does a Trump administration directly affect me? Absolutely. Don't even get me started about my non-white partner.
It is going to be a rough 4 years (if he lasts that long).
Agreed. My family has a rule that we never talk about politics or religion at family gatherings. We all get along great, that way.
Why stop there? Just give all of North America back to the Native Americans.
. Trump has not expressed any racist statements; he expressed negative views of some illegal immigrants.
Of the top of my head, I remember Trump saying "Where is my African American?". Maybe that doesn't sound racist to you, but it sure does to a lot of people. Also, you seem to forget how he stated that the judge couldn't be fair in the Trump University case, because he was a Mexican. I'm sure there are more examples. His rhetoric was very racist at times. There is a reason white nationalists love him.
"IBM is betting big on cloud and other services, having spun off its hardware units like servers and PCs to Lenovo" IBM still sells a lot of hardware. They mostly sell "big iron" stuff with higher profit margins than commodity Intel based servers. They still manufacture servers based on the Power processor, running AIX UNIX and IBMi (formerly AS/400). They still manufacture mainframes. Plus, they are still a big player in the enterprise storage server market. I'm guessing quite a number of patents still come from their hardware. Especially since it is mostly proprietary hardware, including the processors, etc. There wasn't much to patent (in comparison) in the Intel server and PC markets.
You are correct. Back in the day, companies like AMD, also had 80486 (or "486") and "386" processor chips. Intel couldn't patent the number. So they renamed the upcoming (at the time) 80586 chip as the "Pentium". The rest is history...
No, it's not an indicator of ignorance and stigma, it's an indicator of age. While growing up we'd hear about AIDS being spread, not HIV. Using the term HIV or HIV/AIDS didn't come until much later.
I call BS on this one. I grew up in the 70's and 80's. While the term AIDS did come out first (about 82), the virus that caused AIDS was labeled as HIV, in 86. I was there. I remember being told about HIV/AIDS when I was in high school and I knew the difference (and still do). You are/were ignorant and are just trying to cover your tracks.
This is so high in such a small portion of the population that the Red Cross and other blood donation organizations make that behavior a bar against donating blood. I've seen gay rights advocacy groups call for a lift on that ban to avoid the stigma and I fear for the future of humanity if they are successful.
There is no reason to continue the ban on homosexual's giving blood. Not all homosexuals are high risk, the blood is thoroughly tested now days, and do you really think every homosexual tells the truth about their sexuality when giving blood?
Climate hoax? There is no hoax about it. Man made climate change is a fact. Deny it all you want, but it doesn't make it less true.
Just waiting for Trump to tweet.... "Tech support costs are out of control. More that $2 billion. Cancel order!"
...or they could turn into fat mindless slobs who sit in front of their satellite TV's. Then they would be just like an average American...
1. You get what you pay for. Yes, pSeries hardware costs a ton of $ (iSeries even more so). However, you get top notch hardware and an OS designed around the hardware. Much more stability, scalability and redundancy than any linux box than has been slapped together. 2. You evidently have never used any virtualization on a pSeries/AIX machine. AIX runs circles around VMware ESX, etc. Any resourse allocation can be changed on the fly without taking down any of the OS's involved in the reallocation. You can even setup scripts to change the allocations overnight and then return to normal during the day, or however you want to do it. Just to name one of the features. I would take a LPARed pSeries box any day over an ESX box.
Believe me, I fully understand what you are saying and I realize my comment didn't make sense. You took my comment WAY too seriously. It was suppose to be a joke.
Can we choose which OS to use? I would hate to be running anything from MS. Although the hospitals would love it, because millions of people would be in a short comma once a week...that is unless they rebooted every night.
It was meant to be a funny joke, but I'm sorry if you took it seriously. I wasn't really trying to complain....but, now that you mention it, I am salaried, so no, my company didn't pay me anything extra for the overtime I wasted updating our servers. Time that I could have used on other things...anyways, I digress and you'll probably chew me out again for complaining... :-)
The idea of WiFi on airplanes is awesome. I'm not sure about cell phones though. I just pray that the pilot isn't jabbering on a cell phone while trying to land and eat lunch.
I'm glad the government waisted my time. I got to spend more time at work prior to March 17 applying patches on servers, etc. Thank you, US government, I was so bored at work with nothing else to do prior to the new DST and to hear that is was a waste, really makes me feel good, especially about you. :-)
I fully understand the reasons Bush went to war with Iraq. That doesn't mean I have to believe in or support his war.
I realize that Intelligent Design is also a theory. However, for me it is a matter of belief. It is a matter of taking a "leap of faith" and believing that God exists and created the universe. I have no scientific proof of His existence and I never will. The only principles I have are the Bible and the experiences of what He has done in my life and the lives of others.
As far as the creationism vs. evolution debate, if either one was proven to be false, it would not change my faith in the creator God.
Actually, if you had been watching the news about evangelicals (besides the whole Ted Haggard thing) you would know that more and more evangelicals are also becoming environmentalists. Many believe that global warming is happening and they are standing side by side with the Sierra Club (and others) to help fix environmental problems. Many are conservative evangelicals that also believe in creationism, etc.
Its not really a matter of how easy or difficult evolution is to understand. Its more a matter of belief. I know a number of fundamentalist Christians who understand evolution, but don't believe in evolution. An example: I understand Bush's reasons for attacking Iraq, but I don't believe in his reasons for attacking Iraq. :-)
I find it interesting that people on Slashdot (and elsewhere) follow the belief that if you believe in creationism and intelligent design that you are "stupid" and if you believe in evolution you are "smart". I know a number of highly educated people that believe in creationism. Evolution is a theory, not necessarily a fact. The same is also true for creationism. Being a Christian, I believe in intelligent design. I believe we were created by God. But, I don't really care how He did it. I don't really care if He used evolution or the creationism theory. I don't really care if the earth is 5000 years old or 5 billion years old. Either could be true, but in the long run, it doesn't matter. Believing in evolution or not, does not matter when my grandpa is dying or my friend gets divorced or my neighbor's house burns down, etc. It doesn't affect my day to day life.