That's a pretty fucking sad state of affairs. (I owned the G3 and G4...I couldn't stomach more of the same but in a clunkier package)
Do tell more. I haven't heard anything negative about the G5, but I also have not done a super-thorough research, either. Any and all accounts would be of value to me.
Sure just put endless amounts of free parking easily accessible out side your city. Then make magical transporters to get everything larger than one grocery bag home, oh and don't forget those who travel outside a city but live in them, let them pack their cars with 20 trips of public transport.
As I said, in Europe we can conceive of an existence where you don't need to hop into a car every time you have to go from point A to point B. You, obviously, can't. It's remarkable to see your mental block at work, and I hope you answer this post as well.
Allow service vehicles, public transportation, cabs and bicycles, and everyone will be happy. This will be unpopular with North Americans (US and Canadians alike) who live their lives in cars, but in Europe we can conceive of an existence where you don't need to hop into a car every time you have to go from point A to point B.
How can it be determined that any given Reddit user was "toxic", when the CEO or other Reddit employees can edit the users' posts?
Basically, Reddit is so fucked...
I wonder if people really think this is limited to Reddit. Don't they realize that any forum, comment section or social network can be edited by those who run it?
All of them allow for editing, but there is a strong implicit social contract that the content of a post cannot be edited except by the poster. It is somewhat accepted that they can be completely removed or hidden. but not "put words in their mouths", so to say.
Well, the renal failure often associated with ecstasy isn't exactly cheap on its own. Seriously, the stuff has most of the side effects of meth. Unlike weed, it is one of drugs that is most definitely worse for you than alcohol is. The argument is, do the benefits outweigh the harm. But make no mistake, only an idiot would say it's not dangerous.
Nobody is talking about banning speech. Twitter is talking about banning users who violate their rules. That's it.
Do you seriously not see how banning someone is equal to banning their speech, or are you just trolling? I hope for the latter, because the former would be straight out of 1984.
Hey, I have a similar, transient I hope, problem. I suddenly have heart palpitations, cravings for sweet foods, mood problems, dizziness and other symptoms of Type 2 D. but I don't have Type 2 D., just a very poorly controlled blood sugar - and it all started suddenly after a bad viral infection. I emphasize viral, because I didn't use antibiotics. Still, I guess my microbiota have suffered somehow, because in addition to the poor sugar control I also have regular stomach pain.
My doctor and I are desperately trying to diagnose what the fuck is going on, but maybe you could contribute/help by sharing more information? At least regarding the re-balancing of your microbiota - what did you do, how did you figure things are back to normal, etc.?
The alt-right started calling moderate conservatives 'Cuckservatives', claiming that there were like the Cuckoo, sitting in the 'nest' of the Republican party and feigning conservatism to win votes, but voting for progressive policies while in office.
That's simply not true. That story is just the alt-Right trying to lie about the fact that they started on 4chan, where the word, "cuck", short for "cuckold" has been a popular insult for a while. It is a mythical origin story that was concocted long after the term "cuck" and "cuckservative" were widely used.
It' never had anything to do with a cuckoo bird. It has to do with 4chan's seemingly very intimate knowledge of p0rn videos that show black men having sex with married white women.
So really, you could say that "cuck" is a term used by men who have a fascination with black penises. I hope that clears up your confusion.
Either way, nobody in the known universe really gives a fuck.
Coal waste is NOT more radioactive than nuclear waste. The difference is that nuclear waste is not dumped into the environment, while waste from coal burning is. Nuclear waste is stored, and storage space is limited.
This is a big red herring. The tiny amounts of radioactive pollution dumped in the atmosphere by coal plants is NOTHING compared to the hundreds of tons of heavy metals, arsenic, NOX and mercury (not counting nondescript particulates, which still cause various lung diseases). The number of premature deaths per year caused by coal-fired plants numbers hundreds of thousands. This without mentioning the thousands dying directly because of mining of the humongous amounts of coal needed by those plants. We could also talk about the gigantic scarring of the environment done by coal mining. And we could also talk about the hundreds of millions of children whose neurological development is negatively affected by the increased concentration of mercury in most foodstuffs.
They both held a lid on the islamists in their countries, and the West had no business destabilizing them. The results of Western meddling in those shitholes is clear: they've become much, much worse shitholes.
With my personality, I'd be miserable. Not being able to schedule updates when I want (or completely opt out of them) is something I not only take for granted, but something I insist on. Same with ignoring my privacy settings. And shoving ads down my throat (after I opted out of them) would drive me mad.
So, I guess Windows 10 is for the meek, and as we know, they will inherit the Earth.... right?
I agree with you, Windows 10 is an abomination. It forces me to reboot on its schedule when it has updates to perform (it's literally told me "I'm going to reboot your computer in 1 hour to install updates), and I've missed/not noticed dialogs and had the thing just reboot itself on my while I was in the middle of work, which was lost. It also spends a significant part of my network bandwidth continuously loading updates.
I'd say every three or four reboots, it goes into a lengthy update process that takes minutes.
See, this is the single most frustrating feature of Windows 10. Basically, it tries to assert it's supremacy over your computer, your work, your schedule, in every way possible. I'm sorry, I am from another era and won't allow to be humiliated this way or to chance my workflow around a flawed product.
I don't even understand what "science piracy" might mean. The whole reason for scientific work to exist, is to be disseminated. Paywalled scientific journals are exactly the antithesis of what science is, which is openness, exposure, universal access.
Let me preface this by saying that my reply is not contrarian in any way. In fact, I actually very much agree with you.
I'd say 25% of system updates to my Linux distro would break something, maybe a wireless driver would get flaky, maybe X11 would crap out in some new or unusual way, maybe the battery life would be bad because some kind of battery optimization would stop working. There were ALWAYS problems,
I noticed these problems. What you may not be realizing is, that we entered an era in which software updates rarely bring a true improvement. This is true for practically all software in existence, including operating systems, large scale software suites, small Android apps, web-based apps etc. Even computers (I'll get back to this in a moment). But we also entered an era, I think, where updating is not as super-duper-ultra-extra-fuckindiddlydo-mandatory as it used to be! It started around Windows 8 - people started realizing that, staying with Windows 7, had no drawbacks. And MS reacted to this by ramming Windows 10 down everybody's throat as hard as they could. I sure as hell am not going to let MS force me into Windows 10, for a suite of disparate reasons. So what I do now is, I have a bunch of ThinkPad T400 series laptops, all of them with Windows 7. These laptops have all rock-solid hardware in terms of reliability, and they do what I need, which even includes light-to-medium SolidWorks design. So in a way we are, at the moment, kindred spirits: as you hold on to your 2012 MB Pro, I hold on to my ThinkPads. Still the best keyboard around, with the least intrusive OS that supports the apps I need. I'm not updating the OS, either, because the current updates from MS have a very dubious value. As far as I can tell, I'm set for the next 5-10 years.
This is bullshit fabricated by the democratic leadership. Jill Stein is very clear in her support of vaccination, but Clinton supporters just have to invent BS to throw at Stein, because with her the sexism card doesn't work.
Did you know that John von Neumann and others at RAND Corporation decidedly recommended a preemptive nuclear strike on Moscow, because they thought that a war was inevitable once Russia had nuclear weapons?
I didn't know that, but now Russia does have nuclear weapons, and the situation is what it is.
I have noticed that, as of late, Slashdot stories link to Reuters articles - and Reuters is definitely the top news organization in our solar system (as far as we know).
Nobody in their right state of mind wants it to be used. If it is ever used, it could mean the end of the world is nigh. Why would anyone invest the resources in developing such a weapon?
Fuck the Russians, and the Americans, and the defense departments, and the technicians and engineers willing to take on such a job, and the generals and presidents commissioning such a thing. You are all assholes.
It's a deterrent. As such, it has to be a credible threat, otherwise it's useless. In other words, in order for a deterrent to NOT be used, everybody must know that it certainly WOULD be used in retaliation. It's simple game theory, i.e. hard science. And as we know, science, because it works, bitch.
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>It's probably going to be the LG G5.
That's a pretty fucking sad state of affairs. (I owned the G3 and G4...I couldn't stomach more of the same but in a clunkier package)
Do tell more. I haven't heard anything negative about the G5, but I also have not done a super-thorough research, either. Any and all accounts would be of value to me.
Sorry Samsung, as a current user... I won't be getting anything above the S5.
It's probably going to be the LG G5.
Sure just put endless amounts of free parking easily accessible out side your city. Then make magical transporters to get everything larger than one grocery bag home, oh and don't forget those who travel outside a city but live in them, let them pack their cars with 20 trips of public transport.
As I said, in Europe we can conceive of an existence where you don't need to hop into a car every time you have to go from point A to point B. You, obviously, can't. It's remarkable to see your mental block at work, and I hope you answer this post as well.
Europe would look exactly the same if its entire social geography had been designed with the motor vehicle in mind.
I don't disagree.
Allow service vehicles, public transportation, cabs and bicycles, and everyone will be happy.
This will be unpopular with North Americans (US and Canadians alike) who live their lives in cars, but in Europe we can conceive of an existence where you don't need to hop into a car every time you have to go from point A to point B.
At least the Chinese don't EDIT what you write. Reddit putting words in your mouth is literally "next level shit".
How can it be determined that any given Reddit user was "toxic", when the CEO or other Reddit employees can edit the users' posts?
Basically, Reddit is so fucked...
I wonder if people really think this is limited to Reddit.
Don't they realize that any forum, comment section or social network can be edited by those who run it?
All of them allow for editing, but there is a strong implicit social contract that the content of a post cannot be edited except by the poster. It is somewhat accepted that they can be completely removed or hidden. but not "put words in their mouths", so to say.
Well, the renal failure often associated with ecstasy isn't exactly cheap on its own. Seriously, the stuff has most of the side effects of meth. Unlike weed, it is one of drugs that is most definitely worse for you than alcohol is. The argument is, do the benefits outweigh the harm. But make no mistake, only an idiot would say it's not dangerous.
That's BULLSHIT.
Nobody is talking about banning speech. Twitter is talking about banning users who violate their rules. That's it.
Do you seriously not see how banning someone is equal to banning their speech, or are you just trolling? I hope for the latter, because the former would be straight out of 1984.
How can it be determined that any given Reddit user was "toxic", when the CEO or other Reddit employees can edit the users' posts?
Basically, Reddit is so fucked...
Hey, I have a similar, transient I hope, problem. I suddenly have heart palpitations, cravings for sweet foods, mood problems, dizziness and other symptoms of Type 2 D. but I don't have Type 2 D., just a very poorly controlled blood sugar - and it all started suddenly after a bad viral infection. I emphasize viral, because I didn't use antibiotics. Still, I guess my microbiota have suffered somehow, because in addition to the poor sugar control I also have regular stomach pain.
My doctor and I are desperately trying to diagnose what the fuck is going on, but maybe you could contribute/help by sharing more information? At least regarding the re-balancing of your microbiota - what did you do, how did you figure things are back to normal, etc.?
That's simply not true. That story is just the alt-Right trying to lie about the fact that they started on 4chan, where the word, "cuck", short for "cuckold" has been a popular insult for a while. It is a mythical origin story that was concocted long after the term "cuck" and "cuckservative" were widely used.
It' never had anything to do with a cuckoo bird. It has to do with 4chan's seemingly very intimate knowledge of p0rn videos that show black men having sex with married white women.
So really, you could say that "cuck" is a term used by men who have a fascination with black penises. I hope that clears up your confusion.
Either way, nobody in the known universe really gives a fuck.
Coal waste is NOT more radioactive than nuclear waste. The difference is that nuclear waste is not dumped into the environment, while waste from coal burning is. Nuclear waste is stored, and storage space is limited.
This is a big red herring. The tiny amounts of radioactive pollution dumped in the atmosphere by coal plants is NOTHING compared to the hundreds of tons of heavy metals, arsenic, NOX and mercury (not counting nondescript particulates, which still cause various lung diseases). The number of premature deaths per year caused by coal-fired plants numbers hundreds of thousands. This without mentioning the thousands dying directly because of mining of the humongous amounts of coal needed by those plants. We could also talk about the gigantic scarring of the environment done by coal mining. And we could also talk about the hundreds of millions of children whose neurological development is negatively affected by the increased concentration of mercury in most foodstuffs.
They both held a lid on the islamists in their countries, and the West had no business destabilizing them. The results of Western meddling in those shitholes is clear: they've become much, much worse shitholes.
I realise the limitation and I'd love every game to be DRM-free but it's just not practical in this day and age.
Tell that to GOG, where all games are in fact DRM-free.
I'd say you're not a real person but an Apple PR paid sockpuppet account.
With my personality, I'd be miserable. Not being able to schedule updates when I want (or completely opt out of them) is something I not only take for granted, but something I insist on. Same with ignoring my privacy settings. And shoving ads down my throat (after I opted out of them) would drive me mad.
So, I guess Windows 10 is for the meek, and as we know, they will inherit the Earth.... right?
I agree with you, Windows 10 is an abomination. It forces me to reboot on its schedule when it has updates to perform (it's literally told me "I'm going to reboot your computer in 1 hour to install updates), and I've missed/not noticed dialogs and had the thing just reboot itself on my while I was in the middle of work, which was lost. It also spends a significant part of my network bandwidth continuously loading updates.
I'd say every three or four reboots, it goes into a lengthy update process that takes minutes.
See, this is the single most frustrating feature of Windows 10. Basically, it tries to assert it's supremacy over your computer, your work, your schedule, in every way possible. I'm sorry, I am from another era and won't allow to be humiliated this way or to chance my workflow around a flawed product.
I don't even understand what "science piracy" might mean. The whole reason for scientific work to exist, is to be disseminated. Paywalled scientific journals are exactly the antithesis of what science is, which is openness, exposure, universal access.
Let me preface this by saying that my reply is not contrarian in any way. In fact, I actually very much agree with you.
I'd say 25% of system updates to my Linux distro would break something, maybe a wireless driver would get flaky, maybe X11 would crap out in some new or unusual way, maybe the battery life would be bad because some kind of battery optimization would stop working. There were ALWAYS problems,
I noticed these problems. What you may not be realizing is, that we entered an era in which software updates rarely bring a true improvement. This is true for practically all software in existence, including operating systems, large scale software suites, small Android apps, web-based apps etc. Even computers (I'll get back to this in a moment).
But we also entered an era, I think, where updating is not as super-duper-ultra-extra-fuckindiddlydo-mandatory as it used to be! It started around Windows 8 - people started realizing that, staying with Windows 7, had no drawbacks. And MS reacted to this by ramming Windows 10 down everybody's throat as hard as they could. I sure as hell am not going to let MS force me into Windows 10, for a suite of disparate reasons. So what I do now is, I have a bunch of ThinkPad T400 series laptops, all of them with Windows 7. These laptops have all rock-solid hardware in terms of reliability, and they do what I need, which even includes light-to-medium SolidWorks design.
So in a way we are, at the moment, kindred spirits: as you hold on to your 2012 MB Pro, I hold on to my ThinkPads. Still the best keyboard around, with the least intrusive OS that supports the apps I need. I'm not updating the OS, either, because the current updates from MS have a very dubious value. As far as I can tell, I'm set for the next 5-10 years.
Yes, vote for the vaxxer-apologist
This is bullshit fabricated by the democratic leadership. Jill Stein is very clear in her support of vaccination, but Clinton supporters just have to invent BS to throw at Stein, because with her the sexism card doesn't work.
It makes sense for Apple: one MacBook saved is one less sale for them.
And I'm not even joking - I would not put this past them.
Did you know that John von Neumann and others at RAND Corporation decidedly recommended a preemptive nuclear strike on Moscow, because they thought that a war was inevitable once Russia had nuclear weapons?
I didn't know that, but now Russia does have nuclear weapons, and the situation is what it is.
I have noticed that, as of late, Slashdot stories link to Reuters articles - and Reuters is definitely the top news organization in our solar system (as far as we know).
Why would humans create a weapon like that? :(
Nobody in their right state of mind wants it to be used.
If it is ever used, it could mean the end of the world is nigh.
Why would anyone invest the resources in developing such a weapon?
Fuck the Russians, and the Americans, and the defense departments, and the technicians and engineers willing to take on such a job, and the generals and presidents commissioning such a thing. You are all assholes.
It's a deterrent. As such, it has to be a credible threat, otherwise it's useless. In other words, in order for a deterrent to NOT be used, everybody must know that it certainly WOULD be used in retaliation. It's simple game theory, i.e. hard science. And as we know, science, because it works, bitch.