Why should I have to live on a carbon budget? [...] It's largely a natural cycle that has happened time and time again in the earth's past, and we just have to adjust to it. And as humans, the most intelligent creature on this rock, we sure as hell will find a way to do so
So it sounds like you're saying "Other people had better fix the problem, because I sure as hell ain't going to be bothered to lift a finger."
Just... don't use the words "No True Scotsman" here. There is no rhetorical device on Slashdot that is more misused, misunderstand, or just.. all-around terrible.
The time to stop telling jokes like this is when either 1) a significant percentage of Slashdot regulars no longer think they are funny or 2) the telling of such jokes is causing a non-negligible amount of real-world harm
Ooooorrr.. when a joke gets repeated so many times it just isn't funny anymore. Like the nerd tendency to repeat Holy Grail lines ad nauseum after most people (nerds included) have gotten sick of it. Yeah, it's closely related to #1, the key is that overuse of any humor tends towards leading people to think it's not funny.
not only are children an excellent source of slave labor, but they're also your retirement plan.
I'd say children are still a big part of the retirement plan in the US. Very few people will be able to afford dedicated help at age 80+, many families expect children to take care of their parents.
Actually, I'm thinking about less evil things like simply not paying people to have children, providing free birth control and neonatal care, etc.
That's a pretty tough hurdle. I don't care how many degrees the earth rises, I doubt we will ever see a day where the nurturing of "the family" in the US is not seen as the greatest good.
Seems like a good thing, but the abortion issue is hardly settled, Roe vs Wade be damned. It's become harder and harder, not easier, to get abortions, especially in the the poorer sections of the country where woman may need it more.
Dictators can be very different. Compare Pinochet, who stepped down on his own, and left his country as Latin America's top economy, with Fidel Castro or Hugo Chavez — the guys, who never step down (only carried out) and turn their countries into shitholes?
Holy SHIT, I can't believe you would try to spin this positively. My God, this thread is a gold mine for hilarity.
Except Russia and China hate most of the middle east far more than Americans do. We could easily come to an agreement with both of them.
But what do they hate more than that? The USA getting more influence, or at least enough dick-swinging ability so that there wouldn't be serious repercussions to wiping out a section of the map.
Untrue, the god of Abraham is against unjustified murder. If it's justifiable, it's totally fine, and God certainly ordered the wiping out of several cultures.
Everybody wants to fight on the other guys soil. Guess who gets to decide? It isn't you.
Oh, and the rest of the world doesn't get a say in this? Think Russia will idly sit by? The EU? Turning the sand to glass in the Middle East will mean pretty much every other region in the world will declare war most likely, incredibly harsh sanctions at the very minimum. I know the US likes to think it's uber-independent and all, but I don't think you're prepared for the absolute pariah the USA would become.
abortion? gays? death penalty? environment? religion? wellfare? education?
You mean, the topics that affect the average person the most and thus the ones they actually care about, rather than the nebulous and ill-explained "power?"
A coalition government containing: Ralph Nader, Bernie Sander, Ron Wyden, Sarah Palin, Justin Amash and Glenn Beck would oddly be more unified in purpose, more functional, and more for the people than one composed of "moderate centrists" like John McCain, John Kerry, George Bush, and Barack Obama.
The best part is that it'd be a real life political version of the game "Clue." The entire US population could play, guessing which of the above bludgeoned Ron Wyden to death with a candlestick in the library.
He's even more of a one than Raygun. Starting us down the path to thirty years of war proves he is a Republican. That is the way of their kind.
Did you read the article or listen to the interview? Panetta says that we're in for a 30-year war, and his criticism of Obama is that the President had been resisting it, that he was too cognizant of a "war-weary public" who wanted an end to the wars the US was involved in. Panetta's charge is that Obama should have used more influence in Iraq instead of up and leaving (with the dickweed Malaki in charge).
I still don't quite know what problems pulseaudio or systemd are trying to solve
Well, for Pulseaudio, one of the biggest problems it was trying to solve was that a number of years ago, hardware vendors stopped putting audio mixers on their sound cards/chips, necessitating a sound server to do all the muxing in software. ALSA's dmix feature did this, but it was a horrible solution and not easy to set up. Pulseaudio was similarly terrible when it was first release, but starting around... oh, 0.9.22 it finally achieved some sort of production-usable status.
Plus Pulseaudio lets you mux together audio from a number of computers into one, which can be nice, though your average home user likely won't care.
No one has been able to come up with a solution to have it create text logs?
Plenty of people have, but the complainers usually don't know about them and keep throwing the same charges that have either been debunked or fixed from earlier versions.
There's a lot of systemd "lore" (along with Pulseaudio and Networkmanger et all) that gets passed around from person to person and swallowed up without actually checking for the accuracy.
Unless this guy wasn't telling the truth and he really did invoke his employer's name while ranting at some poor Comcast employee ("F**k you, do you know who I am? I'm the CXX at YYY!") Then he won't sue.
He wouldn't have to invoke the employer's name; just saying he worked at an accounting firm which has oversight on Comcast's finances would be enough.
Look, we all hate Comcast, but something is fishy here about this guy. I will go as far as saying that the write-up is one-sided, and if "true", the employer has opened themselves up to a lawsuit, and I really don't think HR and their lawyers would do this.
As I speculated above, the customer works for a firm which handles some portion of Comcast's accounting. If the customer tried to use that specific influence (or say, made threats that the books would be looked at more carefully, or any sort of veiled insinuation for that matter), that would be an ethical violation that would justify firing. However, it's just he-said/she-said until you hear the tapes, and with a pending lawsuit, I doubt anyone but lawyers / court staff from each side will them anytime soon.
If the guy really did name-drop his employer in an attempt to intimidate/coerce Comcast, what's the problem?
Without the tapes of the conversation from Comcast, we don't actually know what was said. It's a he said/she said sort of deal.
For instance, the customer works at an accounting firm which audits Comcast's books. If the customer called up Comcast and used his position as an associate at the firm in order to gain leverage, that'd be an ethical violation, and yes that would warrant an investigation and termination... if it were true. He wouldn't have had to exactly name the company either (which he says he never did), just state what the company did.
But again, no proof either way. But something funny happened -- do you think Comcast really does this for everyone who tries to cancel? No, this was a special case.
The issue is with studio contracts and provider risks. The studios want $4-6 per rental of their new releases and aren't willing to negotiate a (reasonable) flat rate to subscription providers
This is why streaming sucks. This is why it's inferior to the older discs method, and it's entirely because the studios have too much control over streaming and pricing, and therefore they fuck it up. For the last eight years I've been able to rent almost anything I wanted from Netflix for a reasonable price. Now we try shifting to online streaming and we can say goodbye to a good thing.
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Why should I have to live on a carbon budget? [...] It's largely a natural cycle that has happened time and time again in the earth's past, and we just have to adjust to it. And as humans, the most intelligent creature on this rock, we sure as hell will find a way to do so
So it sounds like you're saying "Other people had better fix the problem, because I sure as hell ain't going to be bothered to lift a finger."
Just... don't use the words "No True Scotsman" here. There is no rhetorical device on Slashdot that is more misused, misunderstand, or just.. all-around terrible.
Sure. Although I make a fine salary and barely work more than part time hours..
You can thank the unions for that, by the way. Not that I expect that to happen.
Here in Boston we still make fun of the accent even though it's not as common as most depictions would make you think.
That's too bad; I love the Boston accent.
The time to stop telling jokes like this is when either 1) a significant percentage of Slashdot regulars no longer think they are funny or 2) the telling of such jokes is causing a non-negligible amount of real-world harm
Ooooorrr.. when a joke gets repeated so many times it just isn't funny anymore. Like the nerd tendency to repeat Holy Grail lines ad nauseum after most people (nerds included) have gotten sick of it. Yeah, it's closely related to #1, the key is that overuse of any humor tends towards leading people to think it's not funny.
not only are children an excellent source of slave labor, but they're also your retirement plan.
I'd say children are still a big part of the retirement plan in the US. Very few people will be able to afford dedicated help at age 80+, many families expect children to take care of their parents.
Actually, I'm thinking about less evil things like simply not paying people to have children, providing free birth control and neonatal care, etc.
That's a pretty tough hurdle. I don't care how many degrees the earth rises, I doubt we will ever see a day where the nurturing of "the family" in the US is not seen as the greatest good.
Unfortunately, there are a great many people who believe that the only reason for sex is procreative.
Biologically, sex is procreative. It's the whole point. We try to do a lot of things that get in the way of that, but no system is perfect.
and having known people who've had abortions
Seems like a good thing, but the abortion issue is hardly settled, Roe vs Wade be damned. It's become harder and harder, not easier, to get abortions, especially in the the poorer sections of the country where woman may need it more.
Oh, so the US is conquering the WHOLE world now? It can't even maintain control over one country.
Dictators can be very different. Compare Pinochet, who stepped down on his own, and left his country as Latin America's top economy, with Fidel Castro or Hugo Chavez — the guys, who never step down (only carried out) and turn their countries into shitholes?
Holy SHIT, I can't believe you would try to spin this positively. My God, this thread is a gold mine for hilarity.
Except Russia and China hate most of the middle east far more than Americans do. We could easily come to an agreement with both of them.
But what do they hate more than that? The USA getting more influence, or at least enough dick-swinging ability so that there wouldn't be serious repercussions to wiping out a section of the map.
Actually, God is against killing too.
Untrue, the god of Abraham is against unjustified murder. If it's justifiable, it's totally fine, and God certainly ordered the wiping out of several cultures.
Everybody wants to fight on the other guys soil. Guess who gets to decide? It isn't you.
Oh, and the rest of the world doesn't get a say in this? Think Russia will idly sit by? The EU?
Turning the sand to glass in the Middle East will mean pretty much every other region in the world will declare war most likely, incredibly harsh sanctions at the very minimum. I know the US likes to think it's uber-independent and all, but I don't think you're prepared for the absolute pariah the USA would become.
abortion? gays? death penalty? environment? religion? wellfare? education?
You mean, the topics that affect the average person the most and thus the ones they actually care about, rather than the nebulous and ill-explained "power?"
A coalition government containing: Ralph Nader, Bernie Sander, Ron Wyden, Sarah Palin, Justin Amash and Glenn Beck would oddly be more unified in purpose, more functional, and more for the people than one composed of "moderate centrists" like John McCain, John Kerry, George Bush, and Barack Obama.
The best part is that it'd be a real life political version of the game "Clue." The entire US population could play, guessing which of the above bludgeoned Ron Wyden to death with a candlestick in the library.
He's even more of a one than Raygun. Starting us down the path to thirty years of war proves he is a Republican. That is the way of their kind.
Did you read the article or listen to the interview? Panetta says that we're in for a 30-year war, and his criticism of Obama is that the President had been resisting it, that he was too cognizant of a "war-weary public" who wanted an end to the wars the US was involved in. Panetta's charge is that Obama should have used more influence in Iraq instead of up and leaving (with the dickweed Malaki in charge).
I still don't quite know what problems pulseaudio or systemd are trying to solve
Well, for Pulseaudio, one of the biggest problems it was trying to solve was that a number of years ago, hardware vendors stopped putting audio mixers on their sound cards/chips, necessitating a sound server to do all the muxing in software. ALSA's dmix feature did this, but it was a horrible solution and not easy to set up. Pulseaudio was similarly terrible when it was first release, but starting around... oh, 0.9.22 it finally achieved some sort of production-usable status.
Plus Pulseaudio lets you mux together audio from a number of computers into one, which can be nice, though your average home user likely won't care.
No one has been able to come up with a solution to have it create text logs?
Plenty of people have, but the complainers usually don't know about them and keep throwing the same charges that have either been debunked or fixed from earlier versions.
There's a lot of systemd "lore" (along with Pulseaudio and Networkmanger et all) that gets passed around from person to person and swallowed up without actually checking for the accuracy.
Why do you feel they're any more capable of carrying out their threats?
The problem is that when death threats are given out casually, it's harder to tell the difference between an anti-social wanker and a true threat.
Unless this guy wasn't telling the truth and he really did invoke his employer's name while ranting at some poor Comcast employee ("F**k you, do you know who I am? I'm the CXX at YYY!") Then he won't sue.
He wouldn't have to invoke the employer's name; just saying he worked at an accounting firm which has oversight on Comcast's finances would be enough.
Look, we all hate Comcast, but something is fishy here about this guy. I will go as far as saying that the write-up is one-sided, and if "true", the employer has opened themselves up to a lawsuit, and I really don't think HR and their lawyers would do this.
As I speculated above, the customer works for a firm which handles some portion of Comcast's accounting. If the customer tried to use that specific influence (or say, made threats that the books would be looked at more carefully, or any sort of veiled insinuation for that matter), that would be an ethical violation that would justify firing. However, it's just he-said/she-said until you hear the tapes, and with a pending lawsuit, I doubt anyone but lawyers / court staff from each side will them anytime soon.
If the guy really did name-drop his employer in an attempt to intimidate/coerce Comcast, what's the problem?
Without the tapes of the conversation from Comcast, we don't actually know what was said. It's a he said/she said sort of deal.
For instance, the customer works at an accounting firm which audits Comcast's books. If the customer called up Comcast and used his position as an associate at the firm in order to gain leverage, that'd be an ethical violation, and yes that would warrant an investigation and termination... if it were true. He wouldn't have had to exactly name the company either (which he says he never did), just state what the company did.
But again, no proof either way. But something funny happened -- do you think Comcast really does this for everyone who tries to cancel? No, this was a special case.
The issue is with studio contracts and provider risks. The studios want $4-6 per rental of their new releases and aren't willing to negotiate a (reasonable) flat rate to subscription providers
This is why streaming sucks. This is why it's inferior to the older discs method, and it's entirely because the studios have too much control over streaming and pricing, and therefore they fuck it up. For the last eight years I've been able to rent almost anything I wanted from Netflix for a reasonable price. Now we try shifting to online streaming and we can say goodbye to a good thing.
You mean from an iPhone. My iPhone 3g already 6 years old still hold charge for about 48 hours, even when playing music for 10 hours.
You are an outlier, and your experience does not match those of most iPhone 3g owners.