Oh, the idea that we can disenfranchise people just because of a felony conviction is one of the most problematic legal problems of our day. This is the first step in eroding all rights for everyone in general. It's that first excuse that leads to all manner of abuse (like RICO).
Angry minorities have the same rights as anyone else (Black Panthers).
When that legal language was crafted, the "militia" consisted of the entire population of able bodied males. Anyone who would have a draft card today could be called up at a moments notice and be expected to participate immediately.
Individual militias drilled and practiced marksmanship.
The situation you are trying to distort for your own political agenda would actually be more along the lines of YOU being personally expected to own an M-16 and be able to use it without hurting yourself.
The 2nd Amendment is more along the lines of what people in those times thought an adult responsible citizen should be able to handle.
If anything would horrify our founding fathers, it would be our large standing Army and the general lack of self-reliance.
Keep in mind that our current Constitution represented USA version 2.0 and even then, people were worried about "such a strong central government". The Bill of Rights was all about reassuring those with fears of a powerful central government.
This is what saved the soccer stadium in Paris. It had ample security versus the Bataclan. They disarmed all of the football fans but they also had enough warm bodies wandering around protecting all of those disarmed people.
All of the liberals that want to take your guns are very well armed, indirectly, by their own security details.
Don't the poor get a form of socialized healthcare? Because of that, everything should be just fine with the American poor. If a certain contingent of liberals would happily sign up for Medicare, then it can't be all bad can it? [/sarcasm]
It's just the working class that has to pay it's own way.
For women that are competent and just take care of business, the patriarchy is actually quite open. Even older generations respect skill and talent for what it is. Quite often, it is the lower class females that cause problems.
I've heard it described as "men love a champion" and "women want to tear each other down".
5% is statistical noise. It's not being an "asshole", it's being numerate.
I've made my own compromises that have impacted my salary. So I don't buy into the SJW nonsense. Girls are indoctrinated differently. Depending on the size or type of company that will work for or against a female programmer.
Neither is the fault of tech companies or male tech workers.
I might buy a new tablet for one and one reason only: more storage capacity. My last Archos is getting long in the tooth but it still stomps all the competition when it comes to storage.
> A styrofoam cup is as good a beer vessel as a ceramic stein or a pub glass
Yes it is. Don't lose sight of the fact that the point of the exercise is the G*D D*MNED BEER. What you look like while drinking it is entirely irrelevant.
Nope. You're the one that's trolling... tossing around vague meaningless insults.
Something like "it's not as bad as people say" is not something that can in any way shape or form be considered a troll. It doesn't even fit the most retarded post-modern definition of a troll.
European socialism is not a universal success story. People very much like to cherry pick when they talk about how well Europe manages to do at anything. It's a mixed bag really. Some countries do well and others are a basket case.
Meanwhile, you have the obvious problem of comparing different countries with different cultures. What might work in a tiny country might not work in one the size of the entire EU. Culture might also come into play. This seems to even be a factor within the EU itself. Some countries have no discipline and are rife with corruption while others have all of the fiscal discipline and are keeping the whole thing from completely falling apart.
Then you have the UK where the Tories are running amok in a very familiar fashion.
Most of the people who engage in hysterics are at best spectators that really have no clue how any of this stuff works anywhere. They don't know the details and don't care to.
They've not experienced what American versions of these things exist either in their public or private versions. The haven't done so in Europe either and aren't really familiar with any relevant details.
At best they cite made up statistics that might not even bear any relationship to reality that still may cherry pick and leave out half of Europe to make it's point.
In the end, you can't be gifted what hasn't been made due to lack of incentives. It doesn't matter if you are living in a socialist utopia and like to brag about stiffing American drug companies. Someone has to innovate first.
I would rather we spend money like drunken sailors (or airmen) and have better facilities, more of them, and the best in the world, where we don't give up on people past a certain age or other bogus bean counting excuses.
If money were no object, there is a vanishingly short list of countries I would want to be treated in. None of the utopias to the north are on my list. They are all far too small and lack the requisite experience and expertise.
It's your life, not a car or an operating system or a burger.
> Really? tell that to Sweden, Norway,Denmark and Finland..
Not terribly innovative.
If I had to depend upon them for my health, I would be DEAD.
"happiness" and "standard of living" are things that get reduced to meaningless statistics spun to support whatever agenda is on tap.
They fail to capture the things like lack of central heating and high electricity costs that drive people to use pellet driven space heaters that would make American trailer trash chuckle.
> X is *not* network transparent but is pushing frame buffers in a massively less efficient way than all the other remote display protocols
You're on crack, or just a clueless idiot that's never actually used this stuff. There seems to be a lot of this going around. People like to copy Apple products without actually having used them.
Case in point: VNC versus X. This is one great example that contradicts your statement. VNC is god awful. It is slow. It's so slow that it doesn't even work well on a Gigabit LAN. If it is "more efficient" than X then it certainly doesn't show. It's a total PIG.
> You know every single vitriolic attack that's ever been made against SystemD...
Except you didn't really answer the question.
If anything, X is much like init. For many of us it "just works" and gets stuff done. It sits quietly in the background and does it's thing. It does not make itself a problem.
"It's icky and crufty" isn't really an answer either for X or init.
It seems like the best thing the Wayland fanboys can say for themselves is that you won't notice the difference. That's if we are exceedingly lucky and Wayland development is unnaturally devoid of problems, bugs, or other unexpected issues.
> Network transparency is also a pretty narrow edge case. There hundreds of millions of remote screen devices and deployments today
It makes for a better argument if you don't immediately contradict yourself.
Also, conflating RDP and VNC is just moronic. Microsoft has made RDP a worthy offering. VNC is just a nightmare and the prime example of why you don't want to treat network transparency as an afterthought.
As bad as X is supposed to be, it's still better than VNC. It's WAY better than VNC. X with a few tweaks is almost on par with RDP (even going across the Internet).
Network transparency is by no means a narrow edge case as the example of RDP demonstrates. It's now a common feature that the vast majority of corporate users take for granted.
It's not 1994 anymore. While you X haters were stuck in your bubble the world moved on.
> So you're a bitter, twisted shell of a human being counting his material goods, all alone? What a winner you are.
You are just an idiot that can't accept that other people have their own values and have made their own choices for themselves. I don't need to agree with this guy to acknowledge his right to live life the way he sees fit. I see no point in imposing my values or my choices on him.
My life choices don't depend on suppressing his. Neither do yours.
> Disarming the masses isn't actually a "leftwing agenda;" it's a totalitatian agenda.
While all political parties seem to want to meddle in things that really are none of their business, certain people are hostile to the idea of self-reliance. You may need to take care of business for yourself some day. The situation may not allow for you to call upon some government entity to rescue you.
When seconds count, the government is minutes away.
So... the voter analogy here would be Monsanto suing the League of Women voters.
We can't have those stupid consumers having too much information. They might choose the wrong option. They might vote for a candidate we don't agree with. Can't have that.
I despise the average person as much as the next guy (probably more) but I still think they should be free to make that wrongful choice. They should also have as much information as possible with which to make that wrongful choice.
> They can choose what they want to display. They don't want to display foods with a certain label, they don't manufacture them.
Kellogs has had trouble with this. They wanted to get in on the anti-GMO bandwagon but found their options limited since some crops are already highly dominated by GMO varieties. Some of their big brands CANT be non-GMO.
Now I think they should have gone ahead with embracing non-GMO. They could have just been honest and up front about the brands they couldn't change. They might have even triggered some changes that would have allowed them to go all non-GMO.
They could have portrayed it as listening to the consumer while being honest with the limitations they have to work under.
> The people terriified of GMO food can live on granola
No. Just make your own stuff from actual ingredients that don't need labels because they are themselves just simple agricultural commodities.
Most GMO crops serve as cheap fuel for the JUNK FOOD industry. This isn't about "feeding the world" or any other nonsense like that. This is all about making a cheaper TWINKIE.
So if you avoid processed junk in shiny plastic packages, then you avoid much of this GMO concern.
My wife disavowed herself of "feminists" in college after she got married (to me) because of all of their perverse expectation of what that meant (marriage).
> and we have reached a prosperity level that most of the world, and I dare say including the US, envy us for.
Only because of liberal media propaganda...
Most Americans that actually get to see the European lifestyle don't consider it prosperous at all. Socialism in general and in it's European version distorts the value of labor and personal effort even in the working class.
Americans are free to make irresponsible choices that aren't available to Europeans.
> What like the USA? Oh wait that probably the country that has experienced it the least.
What? Suburbanite spooners for Bernie or Soviet refugees calling him Bernie Breshnev? We have all kinds here. Cubans. Vietnamese. Russians. English. Germans. French.
> The horror of when you get sick, being able to know you can afford to go to the hospital. If you loose your job knowing you won't be on the street.
Right here you're describing the very problem with socialism. You are trying to claim that people can't be responsible for themselves and instead need to be wards of the state.
Socialism is a dirty word in the USA because it degrades the individual, denies self reliance, undermines liberty, and degrades opportunity.
We and our ancestors fled other parts of the world over lack of opportunity and abusive governments.
If anything, being sick has made me LESS interested in socialism rather than more. When I get sick, I don't want CHEAP or FREE. I want good. I might even want the best. I want access to stuff that will help save my life. I want access to the newest treatments and procedures.
Despite it's various faults, "crass capitalism" is far beneficial to my well being (and probably yours) than "equitable redistribution".
Sorry, but it's not the communists (Chinese) or the socialists (Germans, Swedes, Norwegians) that are developing the things that are going to save your life at the local hospital.
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Oh, the idea that we can disenfranchise people just because of a felony conviction is one of the most problematic legal problems of our day. This is the first step in eroding all rights for everyone in general. It's that first excuse that leads to all manner of abuse (like RICO).
Angry minorities have the same rights as anyone else (Black Panthers).
Take a history course or something.
When that legal language was crafted, the "militia" consisted of the entire population of able bodied males. Anyone who would have a draft card today could be called up at a moments notice and be expected to participate immediately.
Individual militias drilled and practiced marksmanship.
The situation you are trying to distort for your own political agenda would actually be more along the lines of YOU being personally expected to own an M-16 and be able to use it without hurting yourself.
The 2nd Amendment is more along the lines of what people in those times thought an adult responsible citizen should be able to handle.
If anything would horrify our founding fathers, it would be our large standing Army and the general lack of self-reliance.
Keep in mind that our current Constitution represented USA version 2.0 and even then, people were worried about "such a strong central government". The Bill of Rights was all about reassuring those with fears of a powerful central government.
This is what saved the soccer stadium in Paris. It had ample security versus the Bataclan. They disarmed all of the football fans but they also had enough warm bodies wandering around protecting all of those disarmed people.
All of the liberals that want to take your guns are very well armed, indirectly, by their own security details.
Inadequate healthcare system?
Don't the poor get a form of socialized healthcare? Because of that, everything should be just fine with the American poor. If a certain contingent of liberals would happily sign up for Medicare, then it can't be all bad can it? [/sarcasm]
It's just the working class that has to pay it's own way.
For women that are competent and just take care of business, the patriarchy is actually quite open. Even older generations respect skill and talent for what it is. Quite often, it is the lower class females that cause problems.
I've heard it described as "men love a champion" and "women want to tear each other down".
5% is statistical noise. It's not being an "asshole", it's being numerate.
I've made my own compromises that have impacted my salary. So I don't buy into the SJW nonsense. Girls are indoctrinated differently. Depending on the size or type of company that will work for or against a female programmer.
Neither is the fault of tech companies or male tech workers.
This is just the patrons of "Eat the Rich" showing their true colors.
I might buy a new tablet for one and one reason only: more storage capacity. My last Archos is getting long in the tooth but it still stomps all the competition when it comes to storage.
> A styrofoam cup is as good a beer vessel as a ceramic stein or a pub glass
Yes it is. Don't lose sight of the fact that the point of the exercise is the G*D D*MNED BEER. What you look like while drinking it is entirely irrelevant.
Nope. You're the one that's trolling... tossing around vague meaningless insults.
Something like "it's not as bad as people say" is not something that can in any way shape or form be considered a troll. It doesn't even fit the most retarded post-modern definition of a troll.
European socialism is not a universal success story. People very much like to cherry pick when they talk about how well Europe manages to do at anything. It's a mixed bag really. Some countries do well and others are a basket case.
Meanwhile, you have the obvious problem of comparing different countries with different cultures. What might work in a tiny country might not work in one the size of the entire EU. Culture might also come into play. This seems to even be a factor within the EU itself. Some countries have no discipline and are rife with corruption while others have all of the fiscal discipline and are keeping the whole thing from completely falling apart.
Then you have the UK where the Tories are running amok in a very familiar fashion.
Most of the people who engage in hysterics are at best spectators that really have no clue how any of this stuff works anywhere. They don't know the details and don't care to.
They've not experienced what American versions of these things exist either in their public or private versions. The haven't done so in Europe either and aren't really familiar with any relevant details.
At best they cite made up statistics that might not even bear any relationship to reality that still may cherry pick and leave out half of Europe to make it's point.
In the end, you can't be gifted what hasn't been made due to lack of incentives. It doesn't matter if you are living in a socialist utopia and like to brag about stiffing American drug companies. Someone has to innovate first.
I would rather we spend money like drunken sailors (or airmen) and have better facilities, more of them, and the best in the world, where we don't give up on people past a certain age or other bogus bean counting excuses.
If money were no object, there is a vanishingly short list of countries I would want to be treated in. None of the utopias to the north are on my list. They are all far too small and lack the requisite experience and expertise.
It's your life, not a car or an operating system or a burger.
> Really? tell that to Sweden, Norway,Denmark and Finland..
Not terribly innovative.
If I had to depend upon them for my health, I would be DEAD.
"happiness" and "standard of living" are things that get reduced to meaningless statistics spun to support whatever agenda is on tap.
They fail to capture the things like lack of central heating and high electricity costs that drive people to use pellet driven space heaters that would make American trailer trash chuckle.
By all means try. It might be amusing.
In the meantime, I will be utilizing a remote GUI to get some work done.
??? You are switching to the libre driver because of VDPAU? That makes no sense.
> X is *not* network transparent but is pushing frame buffers in a massively less efficient way than all the other remote display protocols
You're on crack, or just a clueless idiot that's never actually used this stuff. There seems to be a lot of this going around. People like to copy Apple products without actually having used them.
Case in point: VNC versus X. This is one great example that contradicts your statement. VNC is god awful. It is slow. It's so slow that it doesn't even work well on a Gigabit LAN. If it is "more efficient" than X then it certainly doesn't show. It's a total PIG.
> You know every single vitriolic attack that's ever been made against SystemD...
Except you didn't really answer the question.
If anything, X is much like init. For many of us it "just works" and gets stuff done. It sits quietly in the background and does it's thing. It does not make itself a problem.
"It's icky and crufty" isn't really an answer either for X or init.
It seems like the best thing the Wayland fanboys can say for themselves is that you won't notice the difference. That's if we are exceedingly lucky and Wayland development is unnaturally devoid of problems, bugs, or other unexpected issues.
> Network transparency is also a pretty narrow edge case. There hundreds of millions of remote screen devices and deployments today
It makes for a better argument if you don't immediately contradict yourself.
Also, conflating RDP and VNC is just moronic. Microsoft has made RDP a worthy offering. VNC is just a nightmare and the prime example of why you don't want to treat network transparency as an afterthought.
As bad as X is supposed to be, it's still better than VNC. It's WAY better than VNC. X with a few tweaks is almost on par with RDP (even going across the Internet).
Network transparency is by no means a narrow edge case as the example of RDP demonstrates. It's now a common feature that the vast majority of corporate users take for granted.
It's not 1994 anymore. While you X haters were stuck in your bubble the world moved on.
> So you're a bitter, twisted shell of a human being counting his material goods, all alone? What a winner you are.
You are just an idiot that can't accept that other people have their own values and have made their own choices for themselves. I don't need to agree with this guy to acknowledge his right to live life the way he sees fit. I see no point in imposing my values or my choices on him.
My life choices don't depend on suppressing his. Neither do yours.
> Disarming the masses isn't actually a "leftwing agenda;" it's a totalitatian agenda.
While all political parties seem to want to meddle in things that really are none of their business, certain people are hostile to the idea of self-reliance. You may need to take care of business for yourself some day. The situation may not allow for you to call upon some government entity to rescue you.
When seconds count, the government is minutes away.
So... the voter analogy here would be Monsanto suing the League of Women voters.
We can't have those stupid consumers having too much information. They might choose the wrong option. They might vote for a candidate we don't agree with. Can't have that.
I despise the average person as much as the next guy (probably more) but I still think they should be free to make that wrongful choice. They should also have as much information as possible with which to make that wrongful choice.
> They can choose what they want to display. They don't want to display foods with a certain label, they don't manufacture them.
Kellogs has had trouble with this. They wanted to get in on the anti-GMO bandwagon but found their options limited since some crops are already highly dominated by GMO varieties. Some of their big brands CANT be non-GMO.
Now I think they should have gone ahead with embracing non-GMO. They could have just been honest and up front about the brands they couldn't change. They might have even triggered some changes that would have allowed them to go all non-GMO.
They could have portrayed it as listening to the consumer while being honest with the limitations they have to work under.
> The people terriified of GMO food can live on granola
No. Just make your own stuff from actual ingredients that don't need labels because they are themselves just simple agricultural commodities.
Most GMO crops serve as cheap fuel for the JUNK FOOD industry. This isn't about "feeding the world" or any other nonsense like that. This is all about making a cheaper TWINKIE.
So if you avoid processed junk in shiny plastic packages, then you avoid much of this GMO concern.
My wife disavowed herself of "feminists" in college after she got married (to me) because of all of their perverse expectation of what that meant (marriage).
Modern feminists really are damaging the brand.
> and we have reached a prosperity level that most of the world, and I dare say including the US, envy us for.
Only because of liberal media propaganda...
Most Americans that actually get to see the European lifestyle don't consider it prosperous at all. Socialism in general and in it's European version distorts the value of labor and personal effort even in the working class.
Americans are free to make irresponsible choices that aren't available to Europeans.
> What like the USA? Oh wait that probably the country that has experienced it the least.
What? Suburbanite spooners for Bernie or Soviet refugees calling him Bernie Breshnev? We have all kinds here. Cubans. Vietnamese. Russians. English. Germans. French.
> The horror of when you get sick, being able to know you can afford to go to the hospital. If you loose your job knowing you won't be on the street.
Right here you're describing the very problem with socialism. You are trying to claim that people can't be responsible for themselves and instead need to be wards of the state.
Socialism is a dirty word in the USA because it degrades the individual, denies self reliance, undermines liberty, and degrades opportunity.
We and our ancestors fled other parts of the world over lack of opportunity and abusive governments.
If anything, being sick has made me LESS interested in socialism rather than more. When I get sick, I don't want CHEAP or FREE. I want good. I might even want the best. I want access to stuff that will help save my life. I want access to the newest treatments and procedures.
Despite it's various faults, "crass capitalism" is far beneficial to my well being (and probably yours) than "equitable redistribution".
Sorry, but it's not the communists (Chinese) or the socialists (Germans, Swedes, Norwegians) that are developing the things that are going to save your life at the local hospital.