There is a difference between lending material support and holding / advocating the opinion that the other side should win.
Not according to centuries of military theory, there isn't. Man, material, morale - these are the components of an army.
When A and B are in a war, you can fight for A by shooting at B, sure, but also by making stuff for A or sabotaging the industry of B, or by boosting the morale of A or dragging down the morale of B. 20th century history showed that attacking industry is actually less important than attacking morale, BTW.
I would have some pretty choice words for anyone suggesting there is one iota of goodness in ISIS and what they stand for, but I would not seek jail them.
If the casualties were more widespread, jail would be the least of his worries. Judge Lynch is notoriously inconsiderate of intention and misunderstood details.
The right to question your own people/nations motives and the justification or lack there of for a war is crucial part of democracy.
Find a way to do that without looking like you're supporting the enemy in an ongoing war. The terrorism thing can get a bit muddy, but ISIS in particular is killing people in France in particular, no ambiguity there, and you don't go around supporting the other side after the shooting starts.
Well, they did determine his intent, it seems, and that's why they let him off with a suspended sentence. Had he named his network "FuckISIS" or something that made his intent clear, I really doubt he would have been arrested. Don't count on people to be rational when there are recent casualties - again, that's just a bad life strategy.
Even in the US, free speech does not extend to giving aid and comfort to the enemy. And, yes, showing public support for the enemy counts. I do think a suspended sentence was appropriate here, of course, since he probably had no ill intent.
Showing public support for a group that makes a habit of killing people in your country is just a bad life strategy.
One of my neighbors has his WiFi access point named after the local pro football team. I think a reasonable person would conclude he's a fan of that team. Same thing here.
Wars are as much about moral support as they are about soldiers and weapons. Giving moral support to the enemy is on par with helping them get weapons. That really is the way war works.
When a group (nation or otherwise) makes a habit of killing people in your country, showing support for them is a bad life strategy.
Most developers should do their job faster and with better quality and stop arguing with their Product Managers.
What do you call 1000 MBAs dying horribly in a chemical fire? A good start!
While you're just trolling, the truth is a PM who actually makes a positive contribution to the feature set of a product is a rare and valuable thing. Mostly product success is luck combined with product quality being "good enough" to not get in the way. Of course, good software ships, and you don't even get to try your luck until that happens.
As a (fairly large) devops team, we probably spend 1/3 of our time in "production support", from bug investigation to various kinds of automation, it never seems to end.
On thing we don't do though, unless there's no other way, is "debug in production". If anything seems off, you roll back, no question. (And if it's not a recent deployment, you should know that very quickly, too, from logs and metrics.) Figuring out exactly what went wrong can wait, reverting the change before it becomes a customer-visible outage is everything.
The only reason to be mucking about in prod in any sort of interactive way is when a change does lasting damage before you can revert it, and you're scrambling to fix the damage. That's the worst place to be. Fortunately, that's pretty rare here.
Trying to get meaningful testing before production for us is a matter of cleverness with mocking or simulation of one kind or another. It would be far too expensive to test at some representative scale. You test what you can, but that's limited. Which means we spend a lot of time on early warning systems and automation for gradual deployment with automated rollback. We don't quite spend more time on that crap as we do on the actual product, but it's close.
More respectful? Clearly you've never argued with one, you racist, sexist, curvyphobic, cithet-elitist, gender-privileged essentialist. You are literally Hitler! Acknowledge your thin privilege, shitlord! Why is it so hard for you to accept that your beliefs are problematic? Your non-gender exotification is incredibly triggering to me!
he only reason the left i.e. regular people, get to define alt-right is that there are so many more of them.
If you think every normal person agrees with your political beliefs, you seriously need to get out more. Grow beyond your bubble - you'll be amazed how much more there is to learn and experience in the world.
If you're not friends with anyone who fundamentally disagrees with you on some important political issues, you'll end up very narrow minded, and it only gets worse as you age.
Oh, I agree. I think the US has a limited number of years left to get a credible non-establishment foothold in government before less appealing options than democracy start unfolding. I don't think it will be Trump, but his supporters aren't going anywhere, and I'm hopeful we'll see less crazy non-establishment candidates in coming election years.
The 'alt-right' people ain't the only ones who have problems w/ Leftists
The term 'alt-right' is ambiguous right now. Is alt-right a bunch of fringe internet whackos? Or is it the 1/3rd or so of America who's on the right, but feels entirely disenfranchised by the GOP (to the point that voting for Trump seems the best alternative)?
'Alt-right' means different (if overlapping) groups depending on who you talk to, and how much they live on the internet.
There's a fairly large crowd that has a problem with "Leftists", but I would say "yes, and that's the alt-right - which is now more mainstream than the GOP".
Well that depends on who you Americans vote for in the next what? 7-8 days...doesn't it. Then again, if you elect Hillary, you could see the first women president impeached too.
80% of "Democrats" and "Republicans" are just the Establishment Party, agreeing on the fundamental principle of taking bribes to funnel taxpayer money in return. Oh, they put on a show about stuff they don't care about at all, like gay marriage (where's the money in that?), but they agree on everything "important".
"The people" control the business in the US, where most of us own stock, and collectively control all publically traded companies. But keep telling yourself that Socialism is about the people.
Except the high-value semiconductors can be made elsewhere where it is cheaper as well. You probably failed Econ101
High-end fabs can run a quarter to a half a billion dollars. Physical security is an important concern at that point. You don't build something that expensive somewhere politically unstable, nor nominally communist, if you can avoid it.
That's not what socialism means - that's just the government supporting businesses. Socialism means "government controls the business, and keeps the profits". Fascism means "government controls, but private owners keep the profits".
They are neither a cab company nor a carpool, nor a limo, nor a private chauffeur, nor a bus. Each is its own kind of hired car. Laws specific to taxis shouldn't apply to Uber and Lyft. More general laws applying to hired cars should. E.g., Texas requires a chauffeur's license for any of those jobs.
You can quite a variety of stuff (including the ingredients for fertilizer) from the Venusian atmosphere. And water, which is fairly important. You don't have to have a fully closed ecosystem.
Sure, you have to bring the habitats either way, but at least on Venus you don't need to withstand a 1-atmosphere pressure differential.
Are you still flogging that deceased ungulate? No one thinks Uber or Lyft are "ride sharing". Nor are they a taxi company, nor a limo service. They're a hired car company of a new kind.
What's the current state of Office on Ubuntu? I'd hope now that we have Office on Android it would be somewhere. Anyone know? WINE working well yet for Office?
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There is a difference between lending material support and holding / advocating the opinion that the other side should win.
Not according to centuries of military theory, there isn't. Man, material, morale - these are the components of an army.
When A and B are in a war, you can fight for A by shooting at B, sure, but also by making stuff for A or sabotaging the industry of B, or by boosting the morale of A or dragging down the morale of B. 20th century history showed that attacking industry is actually less important than attacking morale, BTW.
I would have some pretty choice words for anyone suggesting there is one iota of goodness in ISIS and what they stand for, but I would not seek jail them.
If the casualties were more widespread, jail would be the least of his worries. Judge Lynch is notoriously inconsiderate of intention and misunderstood details.
The right to question your own people/nations motives and the justification or lack there of for a war is crucial part of democracy.
Find a way to do that without looking like you're supporting the enemy in an ongoing war. The terrorism thing can get a bit muddy, but ISIS in particular is killing people in France in particular, no ambiguity there, and you don't go around supporting the other side after the shooting starts.
If you had that license plate, you can bet you'd start getting far more tickets. Another bad life strategy.
Well, they did determine his intent, it seems, and that's why they let him off with a suspended sentence. Had he named his network "FuckISIS" or something that made his intent clear, I really doubt he would have been arrested. Don't count on people to be rational when there are recent casualties - again, that's just a bad life strategy.
Even in the US, free speech does not extend to giving aid and comfort to the enemy. And, yes, showing public support for the enemy counts. I do think a suspended sentence was appropriate here, of course, since he probably had no ill intent.
Showing public support for a group that makes a habit of killing people in your country is just a bad life strategy.
One of my neighbors has his WiFi access point named after the local pro football team. I think a reasonable person would conclude he's a fan of that team. Same thing here.
Wars are as much about moral support as they are about soldiers and weapons. Giving moral support to the enemy is on par with helping them get weapons. That really is the way war works.
When a group (nation or otherwise) makes a habit of killing people in your country, showing support for them is a bad life strategy.
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Steam for games. Chrome for Netflix. VirtualBox/VMWare for Windows 7. Works great!
Is VMware workstation actually supported on Mint? I was planning to hold my nose and install Ubuntu, just to get VMware support.
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Most developers should do their job faster and with better quality and stop arguing with their Product Managers.
What do you call 1000 MBAs dying horribly in a chemical fire? A good start!
While you're just trolling, the truth is a PM who actually makes a positive contribution to the feature set of a product is a rare and valuable thing. Mostly product success is luck combined with product quality being "good enough" to not get in the way. Of course, good software ships, and you don't even get to try your luck until that happens.
As a (fairly large) devops team, we probably spend 1/3 of our time in "production support", from bug investigation to various kinds of automation, it never seems to end.
On thing we don't do though, unless there's no other way, is "debug in production". If anything seems off, you roll back, no question. (And if it's not a recent deployment, you should know that very quickly, too, from logs and metrics.) Figuring out exactly what went wrong can wait, reverting the change before it becomes a customer-visible outage is everything.
The only reason to be mucking about in prod in any sort of interactive way is when a change does lasting damage before you can revert it, and you're scrambling to fix the damage. That's the worst place to be. Fortunately, that's pretty rare here.
Trying to get meaningful testing before production for us is a matter of cleverness with mocking or simulation of one kind or another. It would be far too expensive to test at some representative scale. You test what you can, but that's limited. Which means we spend a lot of time on early warning systems and automation for gradual deployment with automated rollback. We don't quite spend more time on that crap as we do on the actual product, but it's close.
More respectful? Clearly you've never argued with one, you racist, sexist, curvyphobic, cithet-elitist, gender-privileged essentialist. You are literally Hitler! Acknowledge your thin privilege, shitlord! Why is it so hard for you to accept that your beliefs are problematic? Your non-gender exotification is incredibly triggering to me!
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he only reason the left i.e. regular people, get to define alt-right is that there are so many more of them.
If you think every normal person agrees with your political beliefs, you seriously need to get out more. Grow beyond your bubble - you'll be amazed how much more there is to learn and experience in the world.
If you're not friends with anyone who fundamentally disagrees with you on some important political issues, you'll end up very narrow minded, and it only gets worse as you age.
WTF is with /. mods these days? Pointing out the US government is pretty darn corrupt is "trolling" now? Really?
Oh, I agree. I think the US has a limited number of years left to get a credible non-establishment foothold in government before less appealing options than democracy start unfolding. I don't think it will be Trump, but his supporters aren't going anywhere, and I'm hopeful we'll see less crazy non-establishment candidates in coming election years.
The 'alt-right' people ain't the only ones who have problems w/ Leftists
The term 'alt-right' is ambiguous right now. Is alt-right a bunch of fringe internet whackos? Or is it the 1/3rd or so of America who's on the right, but feels entirely disenfranchised by the GOP (to the point that voting for Trump seems the best alternative)?
'Alt-right' means different (if overlapping) groups depending on who you talk to, and how much they live on the internet.
There's a fairly large crowd that has a problem with "Leftists", but I would say "yes, and that's the alt-right - which is now more mainstream than the GOP".
Well that depends on who you Americans vote for in the next what? 7-8 days...doesn't it. Then again, if you elect Hillary, you could see the first women president impeached too.
80% of "Democrats" and "Republicans" are just the Establishment Party, agreeing on the fundamental principle of taking bribes to funnel taxpayer money in return. Oh, they put on a show about stuff they don't care about at all, like gay marriage (where's the money in that?), but they agree on everything "important".
An angry 20% will never impeach anyone.
"The people" control the business in the US, where most of us own stock, and collectively control all publically traded companies. But keep telling yourself that Socialism is about the people.
You've moved the goalpost so far you're in a different game.
Except the high-value semiconductors can be made elsewhere where it is cheaper as well. You probably failed Econ101
High-end fabs can run a quarter to a half a billion dollars. Physical security is an important concern at that point. You don't build something that expensive somewhere politically unstable, nor nominally communist, if you can avoid it.
A number of drugs are illegal, but is information about them also illegal?
Marketplaces where one can buy drugs are illegal. Info about drugs is probably a big chunk of that legal content.
That's not what socialism means - that's just the government supporting businesses. Socialism means "government controls the business, and keeps the profits". Fascism means "government controls, but private owners keep the profits".
Also, spare us the "you didn't build that"..
They are neither a cab company nor a carpool, nor a limo, nor a private chauffeur, nor a bus. Each is its own kind of hired car. Laws specific to taxis shouldn't apply to Uber and Lyft. More general laws applying to hired cars should. E.g., Texas requires a chauffeur's license for any of those jobs.
You can quite a variety of stuff (including the ingredients for fertilizer) from the Venusian atmosphere. And water, which is fairly important. You don't have to have a fully closed ecosystem.
Sure, you have to bring the habitats either way, but at least on Venus you don't need to withstand a 1-atmosphere pressure differential.
Are you still flogging that deceased ungulate? No one thinks Uber or Lyft are "ride sharing". Nor are they a taxi company, nor a limo service. They're a hired car company of a new kind.
What's the current state of Office on Ubuntu? I'd hope now that we have Office on Android it would be somewhere. Anyone know? WINE working well yet for Office?