> It's not a meme and you're not buying it because you're a Linux zealot.
He's not buying it because the anecdote is un-verifiable.
On the other hand, a genuine problem report is actually useful. It can be a proper bug report. It can serve as a useful warning to the rest of the community versus mindless fear mongering.
> Until it's as easy to install hardware as it is on OS X
I tend to just plug things in.
I generally have never had to "install something" to get a device working. Whereas Windows quite often chokes on things that "just work" on Linux.
On the other hand, if you are going to blither on about printers you have to admit/acknowledge that Linux and MacOS are IDENTICAL here as Apple assimilated the current Linux printing subsystem.
That's terribly handy really if you happen to have a Macs and Linux machines on the same network.
Throughout most of the history of DOS and Windows, aftermarket customizations were pants. They were either substandard, didn't quite integrate with the base system in some way, or were actively sabotaged by Microsoft.
The system just isn't designed for it.
What some people try to claim is a disadvantage of Linux is why it shines in this particular area. It has always supported different UIs to suit different tastes. It even tried to mock OpenStep before Apple did.
If you are some cowering affluent bleeding heart, you are more likely to get bitten by a dog than shot. You are also more likely to get struck by lightning or contract some rare disease.
My opinion on this subject is not out of hand dismissal.
I want to carry the same weapons as the Marines. That means the same rifle as they carry and the same sidearm. If those are "smart" guns, then I'm fine with that.
I don't view Judge Dredd devices as a means to sidestep the law and deprive other people of their rights.
That link shows nothing of the kind. It shows gimped Apple products not being able to keep up with another Apple product. The one gimped non-Apple product still performs better than the Apple tablet in the limited set of artificial benchmarks.
Beyond being a communist, Bernie is a career politician. He's a calcified part of the establishment. Anyone that thinks otherwise is just kidding themselves.
Although to anyone that actually understands civics, this is all a sideshow anyways as the President has little real power.
In that respect, a Bernie presidency might actually be a GOOD thing as all of the naieve young kids that like him will get disappointed with his socialist agenda due to his inability to force Congress to do his bidding.
Again, one does not negate the other. You don't have to destroy the end user's method for organizing things just so you can store a little extra metadata.
Also if the "not recently played" example is all you can come up with then you're not really doing anything to fully exploit the concept. Unfortunately, a metadata "database" is only as good as the data you feed it. This may be limited by how much effort the end user is willing to put in.
> We can debate what's fair forever, but condemning people to poverty because of where or to whom they were born isn't fair.
If you feel "entitled" to something, you will just demand more. This has come up in minimum wage discussions where leeches have demanded that minimum wage be able to support a "Leave it to Beaver" lifestyle where one income can support a family of 4.
That's not even being provided by the current socialist utopias. That also never existed for the working class in the US ever. It's an idea based on a work of FICTION where the earner is an engineer. These people want Soviet style DIS-incentives based on a fantasy from Hollywood.
Beyond that, the motivated can improve themselves. Education is free. Higher education is free for many of the poor and minorities. Higher education can also be paid for by government loans and state schools are still relatively affordable.
The left just likes to promote the narrative that economic mobility isn't possible anymore. People just want things handed to them. They don't think they should have to work for anything. They also have a demanding idea of what they should get for free.
I suspect this is a result of the "everyone gets a trophy" mentality.
If you implement socialism, then upward mobility really does become impossible. Regulations will crush the little guy or the individual and make large corporate interests even more entrenched (rather than less).
That waste is a necessary byproduct of sufficient supply and a useful diversity of products. Without capitalism, you end up with housing shortages and the lack of basic hygiene products. Too many things are considered unimportant and thus don't get made.
> Cars could be made to last longer, more serviceable, more upgradeable
What are you talking about? I expect a car to last 300,000 miles. Many cars can easily last for decades. Although that's not necessarily the optimal thing because technology improves. Ancient devices use more energy.
If your car fails to meet your own requirements then you simply failed to choose well. Suitable options are available in the market. You simply have to be willing to buy them.
There is also the problem of usage spikes. In some areas, a shortage can be quite literally a matter of life in death. So if there isn't some slack designed in the system, supply won't be available and people will DIE.
The only problem you cite with capitalism is driven by a religious notion of self-deprivation and suffering.
>> Capitalism+free market+liberal democracy are necesserily preconditions for the process evolution of civilization we call progress.
> Witness the power of propaganda.
I dunno. When it comes to medicine that is of interest to me, it seems like the vast majority (if not all) of the progress is being driven by the United States. Israel also seems to have made disproportionate contributes. For the most part, the socialist utopias are not producing. They're not contributing to progress. Many of them aren't even keeping up with the times.
If it's not greed or capitalism then it's something else that the US enables by not being Europe.
I'm alive to contradict you because greed does work. Even the Chinese figured that out.
A command economy doesn't even manage to cover the basic necessities and basic things like toothpaste get neglected.
That's the problem with the younger generation. Without the Soviet Union around, people have gotten out of touch with how truly BAD socialism can be. Even socialism-lite sucks but too few people pay attention to what they're taught in school or have seen what the rest of the world is like for themselves.
A lot of BS propaganda is exchanged person to person on social media and through the regular news media.
The left also likes to deny the idea of economic mobility and is now developing a blatant racist streak with how they try to portray their propaganda.
Guns aren't the problem. You can have very well armed neighborhood and those will be safer than socialist utopias in Europe. Gun crime is just something that liberals in the media like to put on a pedestal. It's click bait. It's scary, but it really nothing relevant to the bleeding hearts in the suburbs.
People still suffer in high crime areas even when guns aren't involved. Even if you could magically make them all disappear, the underlying problem would continue. It would just be invisible to bleeding hearts in the suburbs.
Of course there is always the problem of how. It's not just good enough that someone has promised you rainbow ponies. The devil is in the details and how you are going to implement your grand plan.
There's that pesky 2nd Amendment that you need to get rid of first rather than trying to ignore in a most lawless fashion.
They aren't children either as a matter of science or law.
The evangelicals didn't even care about them until very recently.
Catholics are really the only people that have any respectability on this issue.
If they were actually children, busybodies could adopt them. Except you will never see that. Those busybodies also actively sabotage any chance the forced-borns might have in life. They also fight against sex ed and birth control.
PP is more about condoms, pap smears, and pre-natal vitamins.
Superdelegates are just an excuse that whiney weaklings use to excuse their own failure. At this point, the superdelegates aren't even an issue. Hillary is winning based on normal delegates alone. At this point, the only way they could possibly sway the nomination AWAY from the "will of the people" is if they voted for Sanders.
The idea that the system is rigged is just an idea that's being repeated over and over. It's like the Big Lie. If you repeat it often enough, people think it's true.
Primaries in general are a bit of a farce because they favor extremist candidates that are supported by the "true believers".
If you want open primaries in your state, you might want to try actually trying to participate in the political process instead of just whining about it.
They would be much better off encouraging the other streaming services to integrate with SteamOS. That might even have the nice side effect of benefiting XBMC and MythTV. HELL, the might as well just integrate XBMC into Steam and have the streaming services make XBMC plugins.
Don't re-invent the wheel or worry that a few enthusiasts will benefit from the work too.
> No one? I'm pretty sure there were quite a few people who gladly paid a couple of bucks to rent a video from Blockbuster on the day of their choosing rather than waiting days or weeks for one of the library's copies to become available
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> It's not a meme and you're not buying it because you're a Linux zealot.
He's not buying it because the anecdote is un-verifiable.
On the other hand, a genuine problem report is actually useful. It can be a proper bug report. It can serve as a useful warning to the rest of the community versus mindless fear mongering.
> Until it's as easy to install hardware as it is on OS X
I tend to just plug things in.
I generally have never had to "install something" to get a device working. Whereas Windows quite often chokes on things that "just work" on Linux.
On the other hand, if you are going to blither on about printers you have to admit/acknowledge that Linux and MacOS are IDENTICAL here as Apple assimilated the current Linux printing subsystem.
That's terribly handy really if you happen to have a Macs and Linux machines on the same network.
Throughout most of the history of DOS and Windows, aftermarket customizations were pants. They were either substandard, didn't quite integrate with the base system in some way, or were actively sabotaged by Microsoft.
The system just isn't designed for it.
What some people try to claim is a disadvantage of Linux is why it shines in this particular area. It has always supported different UIs to suit different tastes. It even tried to mock OpenStep before Apple did.
If you are some cowering affluent bleeding heart, you are more likely to get bitten by a dog than shot. You are also more likely to get struck by lightning or contract some rare disease.
My opinion on this subject is not out of hand dismissal.
I want to carry the same weapons as the Marines. That means the same rifle as they carry and the same sidearm. If those are "smart" guns, then I'm fine with that.
I don't view Judge Dredd devices as a means to sidestep the law and deprive other people of their rights.
...because it matters so much just how you became a victim and the fact that you're a victim at all is irrelevant.
If your neighbor isn't an animal, you don't have to worry about him shooting you, beating you, burglarizing your house, or setting your car on fire.
> Iceland.
About the size of any number of US municipalities that have plenty of guns and as much physical safety or equality while being LESS homogeneous.
> If you try to use your own weapon for self defence your likelihood of being shot dramatically increases.
If you think you need one, chances are that you are going to be a victim of violent crime with or without the gun.
> with gun control and a more equal, fair society.
Good luck with that as you seem intent on importing large numbers of people unwilling or unable to assimilate into your society.
That link shows nothing of the kind. It shows gimped Apple products not being able to keep up with another Apple product. The one gimped non-Apple product still performs better than the Apple tablet in the limited set of artificial benchmarks.
Beyond being a communist, Bernie is a career politician. He's a calcified part of the establishment. Anyone that thinks otherwise is just kidding themselves.
Although to anyone that actually understands civics, this is all a sideshow anyways as the President has little real power.
In that respect, a Bernie presidency might actually be a GOOD thing as all of the naieve young kids that like him will get disappointed with his socialist agenda due to his inability to force Congress to do his bidding.
Winamp was nice but nothing really to get too excited about. It was a pretty simple thing really and not that hard to clone or eclipse.
Take a xanax or something... geez.
Again, one does not negate the other. You don't have to destroy the end user's method for organizing things just so you can store a little extra metadata.
Also if the "not recently played" example is all you can come up with then you're not really doing anything to fully exploit the concept. Unfortunately, a metadata "database" is only as good as the data you feed it. This may be limited by how much effort the end user is willing to put in.
Really? You're talking about something that easily maps 1:1 with the physical organization of music in old brick and mortar stores.
How did these people ever manage Buzzard's Nest?
> We can debate what's fair forever, but condemning people to poverty because of where or to whom they were born isn't fair.
If you feel "entitled" to something, you will just demand more. This has come up in minimum wage discussions where leeches have demanded that minimum wage be able to support a "Leave it to Beaver" lifestyle where one income can support a family of 4.
That's not even being provided by the current socialist utopias. That also never existed for the working class in the US ever. It's an idea based on a work of FICTION where the earner is an engineer. These people want Soviet style DIS-incentives based on a fantasy from Hollywood.
Beyond that, the motivated can improve themselves. Education is free. Higher education is free for many of the poor and minorities. Higher education can also be paid for by government loans and state schools are still relatively affordable.
The left just likes to promote the narrative that economic mobility isn't possible anymore. People just want things handed to them. They don't think they should have to work for anything. They also have a demanding idea of what they should get for free.
I suspect this is a result of the "everyone gets a trophy" mentality.
If you implement socialism, then upward mobility really does become impossible. Regulations will crush the little guy or the individual and make large corporate interests even more entrenched (rather than less).
> Capitalism promotes waste.
That waste is a necessary byproduct of sufficient supply and a useful diversity of products. Without capitalism, you end up with housing shortages and the lack of basic hygiene products. Too many things are considered unimportant and thus don't get made.
> Cars could be made to last longer, more serviceable, more upgradeable
What are you talking about? I expect a car to last 300,000 miles. Many cars can easily last for decades. Although that's not necessarily the optimal thing because technology improves. Ancient devices use more energy.
If your car fails to meet your own requirements then you simply failed to choose well. Suitable options are available in the market. You simply have to be willing to buy them.
There is also the problem of usage spikes. In some areas, a shortage can be quite literally a matter of life in death. So if there isn't some slack designed in the system, supply won't be available and people will DIE.
The only problem you cite with capitalism is driven by a religious notion of self-deprivation and suffering.
>> Capitalism+free market+liberal democracy are necesserily preconditions for the process evolution of civilization we call progress.
> Witness the power of propaganda.
I dunno. When it comes to medicine that is of interest to me, it seems like the vast majority (if not all) of the progress is being driven by the United States. Israel also seems to have made disproportionate contributes. For the most part, the socialist utopias are not producing. They're not contributing to progress. Many of them aren't even keeping up with the times.
If it's not greed or capitalism then it's something else that the US enables by not being Europe.
I'm alive to contradict you because greed does work. Even the Chinese figured that out.
We have NOTHING like a command economy.
A command economy doesn't even manage to cover the basic necessities and basic things like toothpaste get neglected.
That's the problem with the younger generation. Without the Soviet Union around, people have gotten out of touch with how truly BAD socialism can be. Even socialism-lite sucks but too few people pay attention to what they're taught in school or have seen what the rest of the world is like for themselves.
A lot of BS propaganda is exchanged person to person on social media and through the regular news media.
The left also likes to deny the idea of economic mobility and is now developing a blatant racist streak with how they try to portray their propaganda.
if things like "rule of law" and "constitutional limits" seem like religious zealotry to you then you're more dangerous than Cruz.
Guns aren't the problem. You can have very well armed neighborhood and those will be safer than socialist utopias in Europe. Gun crime is just something that liberals in the media like to put on a pedestal. It's click bait. It's scary, but it really nothing relevant to the bleeding hearts in the suburbs.
People still suffer in high crime areas even when guns aren't involved. Even if you could magically make them all disappear, the underlying problem would continue. It would just be invisible to bleeding hearts in the suburbs.
Of course there is always the problem of how. It's not just good enough that someone has promised you rainbow ponies. The devil is in the details and how you are going to implement your grand plan.
There's that pesky 2nd Amendment that you need to get rid of first rather than trying to ignore in a most lawless fashion.
They aren't children either as a matter of science or law.
The evangelicals didn't even care about them until very recently.
Catholics are really the only people that have any respectability on this issue.
If they were actually children, busybodies could adopt them. Except you will never see that. Those busybodies also actively sabotage any chance the forced-borns might have in life. They also fight against sex ed and birth control.
PP is more about condoms, pap smears, and pre-natal vitamins.
Superdelegates are just an excuse that whiney weaklings use to excuse their own failure. At this point, the superdelegates aren't even an issue. Hillary is winning based on normal delegates alone. At this point, the only way they could possibly sway the nomination AWAY from the "will of the people" is if they voted for Sanders.
The idea that the system is rigged is just an idea that's being repeated over and over. It's like the Big Lie. If you repeat it often enough, people think it's true.
Primaries in general are a bit of a farce because they favor extremist candidates that are supported by the "true believers".
If you want open primaries in your state, you might want to try actually trying to participate in the political process instead of just whining about it.
This is no place for slacktivism.
They would be much better off encouraging the other streaming services to integrate with SteamOS. That might even have the nice side effect of benefiting XBMC and MythTV. HELL, the might as well just integrate XBMC into Steam and have the streaming services make XBMC plugins.
Don't re-invent the wheel or worry that a few enthusiasts will benefit from the work too.
MP4 has inferior codec support. Something simple and obvious like "a re-compressed DVD" is not an option it's capable of handling.
MKV was created because Apple fanboys shriek at anyone the least bit creative and call them pirates.
Non-apple devices all seem to be remarkably less lame when it comes to format support. This even includes h264 options.
...except modern piracy methods paint a big fat target on your back. You're better off just waiting on Netflix to mail you the physical media.
Same net effect, perfectly legal, doesn't advertise you as a pirate to the world.
> No one? I'm pretty sure there were quite a few people who gladly paid a couple of bucks to rent a video from Blockbuster on the day of their choosing rather than waiting days or weeks for one of the library's copies to become available
Except Blockbuster had the same exact problem.