Nope, this is not due to Microsoft; it is true that they were always pressuring to get the government back on proprietary software. But what changed is that last year there was a coup in Brazil and a legendarily corrupt government took power. They happily accepted Microsoft's bribes and the result is what you see.
Not enough gets said? In every single article in Slashdot about electric vehicles a paid shill like you comes forward and claims that EVs actually pollute more than a Hummer running on baby seal blood.
I bought a LG G3 precisely because it had a removable battery. It's a nice phone. Already a couple of years old, and still working nicely. The battery life is starting to get shorter, though, guess I'll have to spend 20€ to get a new one.
I think being a member of his advisory council is sucking up to him. From his tweets yes, this is the message he is conveying: he disagrees with the policies and wants to fight them from within. I think he is either lying or is extremely politically naïve.
I think you are overestimating Trump's power. He cannot simply forbid SpaceX from launching. Even the things I mentioned require cooperation from Congress (which he still has, so he could do it).
But independently of this, Musk is opposing Trump on immigration, or at least he is claiming to, if you read his tweets. The weird thing is that he is doing that while remaining a member of the advisory council.
Indeed, this is what comes out of the tweets. My theory is that he is lying through his teeth, because the real reason he is Trump's council (he is afraid that Trump would destroy his companies otherwise) is inconfessable.
What I'm surprised about is not that he is not fighting for his employees in this particular case (although SpaceX is only allowed to hire US citizens, Tesla does have foreign engineers), but more generally why is he supporting Trump, given that their political views are rather incompatible.
Thanks for searching for the tweets. But I'm afraid you are underestimating Musk. I don't think he would fall for such an obvious trap. His arguments make sense if he were given a position of actual power: say by leading the EPA instead of a climate-change denialist. But on an advisory council? I think Musk knows very well that his advice will be completely ignored and he is only there to lend some legitimacy to the Trump administration.
I'm a bit disturbed to see Musk sucking up to Trump. Does anyone have a reliable source on why he's doing it?
My guess is that he has no choice. One of his companies (SpaceX) depends a lot on government money. Trump could deeply damage it with a penstroke by excluding it from ISS resupply missions, or forbidding it to compete for national security launches. His other company (Tesla) does not go well with Trump's love for the oil industry.
Well, even without nukes at the table a Brexit war sounds rather fanciful. But what do I know. If anything 2016 proved that the world now is much less predictable than it used to be.
Well, the very reason why the carriers are offering these plans are due to the aggressive restrictions the EU has been putting on roaming charges. They have made the prices fall a lot in the last few years (from more than one euro per MB to currently six cents per megabyte), and they have been promising to completely abolish roaming charges for a while as well. The carriers have simply read the writing on the wall.
I dream of the day we will have again an honest, reality-based right. Say whatever you want about Thatcher and Reagan, at least they had no fight against established science and peddle "alternative facts".
I think it does actually matter that her request is a reasonable one. If she wanted to be referred to as "Queen Manning", or some made-up pronoun like "xe" or "thon" I would just ignore her request, because come on. But I already refer to about half the people I know as "she", so what the heck, Manning is not asking for anything laborious.
Wow, that is wonderful work of art, trying to argue that EVs are actually bad for the environment. Whichever company is hiring you to write that, they're using their money well.
What's your next task, to prove that black is actually white? I'd love to read that one.
Bringing transparency would be publishing the dirty laundry of both the Democrats and the Republic. Hacking both, and then publishing only the Democrats', is not bringing transparency. It is pure and simply trying to influence the result of the election.
What's wrong with "It's not what I'm used to"? I'm not interested in learning a new interface, I'm interested in editing a text document. And I already know how to deal with the drop down menus. Even the young ones know, as almost every single piece of software uses drop down menus. Except of course, for Office, who decided its interface is the best thing since phonetic writing, and forces you to relearn how to do everything.
The very first post was a troll, he wrote "A new administration is coming to town. In 2017, other sources of power will become legal again.". After that a whole line of trolls replied and started new threads, with some mentioning global warming explicitly. The technical posts can be counted on my fingers.
Argh, the comments section of Slashdot is getting completely unreadable when the subject is something that is even vaguely related to global warming. Hordes of trolls rush to tell us that the globe is not warming, that this is all just a vast conspiracy by all the scientists in the world to get more research money.
Come on, can't we get something interesting? I remember that even last year there would be plenty of comments talking about insolation, capacity, load balancing, grid-level storage, price, subsidies, etcetera. Now it's just this nutjob shitfest.
The number one reason is simply stupidity. The overwhelming majority voted against Trump, so I'm happy with not there being a good reason. They think of thenselves as US citizens (even though Trump does not), and believe in the rhetoric "damn Mexicans, raping our women and stealing our jobs".
You're overanalysing it. He had plenty of opportunity to clarify, apologise, retract. He didn't. Instead he insisted in his hateful rhetoric. What he wanted with this speech is simply to demonize Mexicans for electoral gain, and oh how well that worked.
Wow. I gave you a direct quote from the guy and you accuse me of lying? Way to go champ! Denial of reality, dial it up to 11!
And I didn't say that his comment was racist. I said it was the textbook definition of hate speech. Check it out, see how insulting and inspiring hatred against a national group fits in the definition. And no, narrowing it down to Mexican immigrants doesn't make it any less hateful.
The idea that the Mexican government is somehow sending its undesirables to the US is just ridiculous. You would need a massive conspiracy to do that and cover it up. But lack of evidence never deterred any conspiracy theorist, so why do I bother?
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Nope, this is not due to Microsoft; it is true that they were always pressuring to get the government back on proprietary software. But what changed is that last year there was a coup in Brazil and a legendarily corrupt government took power. They happily accepted Microsoft's bribes and the result is what you see.
Not enough gets said? In every single article in Slashdot about electric vehicles a paid shill like you comes forward and claims that EVs actually pollute more than a Hummer running on baby seal blood.
I bought a LG G3 precisely because it had a removable battery. It's a nice phone. Already a couple of years old, and still working nicely. The battery life is starting to get shorter, though, guess I'll have to spend 20€ to get a new one.
I think being a member of his advisory council is sucking up to him. From his tweets yes, this is the message he is conveying: he disagrees with the policies and wants to fight them from within. I think he is either lying or is extremely politically naïve.
I think you are overestimating Trump's power. He cannot simply forbid SpaceX from launching. Even the things I mentioned require cooperation from Congress (which he still has, so he could do it).
But independently of this, Musk is opposing Trump on immigration, or at least he is claiming to, if you read his tweets. The weird thing is that he is doing that while remaining a member of the advisory council.
In case you haven't noticed, both Trump and Musk are part of the "establishment".
Indeed, this is what comes out of the tweets. My theory is that he is lying through his teeth, because the real reason he is Trump's council (he is afraid that Trump would destroy his companies otherwise) is inconfessable.
What I'm surprised about is not that he is not fighting for his employees in this particular case (although SpaceX is only allowed to hire US citizens, Tesla does have foreign engineers), but more generally why is he supporting Trump, given that their political views are rather incompatible.
Thanks for searching for the tweets. But I'm afraid you are underestimating Musk. I don't think he would fall for such an obvious trap. His arguments make sense if he were given a position of actual power: say by leading the EPA instead of a climate-change denialist. But on an advisory council? I think Musk knows very well that his advice will be completely ignored and he is only there to lend some legitimacy to the Trump administration.
I'm a bit disturbed to see Musk sucking up to Trump. Does anyone have a reliable source on why he's doing it?
My guess is that he has no choice. One of his companies (SpaceX) depends a lot on government money. Trump could deeply damage it with a penstroke by excluding it from ISS resupply missions, or forbidding it to compete for national security launches. His other company (Tesla) does not go well with Trump's love for the oil industry.
1. I'm still right and you're still wrong.
Congratulations on your amazing debating skills, sir. Now you have convinced me.
Well, even without nukes at the table a Brexit war sounds rather fanciful. But what do I know. If anything 2016 proved that the world now is much less predictable than it used to be.
Do you think France would just sit idly by if the UK decided to nuke Brussels?
Well, the very reason why the carriers are offering these plans are due to the aggressive restrictions the EU has been putting on roaming charges. They have made the prices fall a lot in the last few years (from more than one euro per MB to currently six cents per megabyte), and they have been promising to completely abolish roaming charges for a while as well. The carriers have simply read the writing on the wall.
I dream of the day we will have again an honest, reality-based right. Say whatever you want about Thatcher and Reagan, at least they had no fight against established science and peddle "alternative facts".
I think it does actually matter that her request is a reasonable one. If she wanted to be referred to as "Queen Manning", or some made-up pronoun like "xe" or "thon" I would just ignore her request, because come on. But I already refer to about half the people I know as "she", so what the heck, Manning is not asking for anything laborious.
Wow, that is wonderful work of art, trying to argue that EVs are actually bad for the environment. Whichever company is hiring you to write that, they're using their money well.
What's your next task, to prove that black is actually white? I'd love to read that one.
Bringing transparency would be publishing the dirty laundry of both the Democrats and the Republic. Hacking both, and then publishing only the Democrats', is not bringing transparency. It is pure and simply trying to influence the result of the election.
What's wrong with "It's not what I'm used to"? I'm not interested in learning a new interface, I'm interested in editing a text document. And I already know how to deal with the drop down menus. Even the young ones know, as almost every single piece of software uses drop down menus. Except of course, for Office, who decided its interface is the best thing since phonetic writing, and forces you to relearn how to do everything.
The very first post was a troll, he wrote "A new administration is coming to town. In 2017, other sources of power will become legal again.". After that a whole line of trolls replied and started new threads, with some mentioning global warming explicitly. The technical posts can be counted on my fingers.
Argh, the comments section of Slashdot is getting completely unreadable when the subject is something that is even vaguely related to global warming. Hordes of trolls rush to tell us that the globe is not warming, that this is all just a vast conspiracy by all the scientists in the world to get more research money.
Come on, can't we get something interesting? I remember that even last year there would be plenty of comments talking about insolation, capacity, load balancing, grid-level storage, price, subsidies, etcetera. Now it's just this nutjob shitfest.
The number one reason is simply stupidity. The overwhelming majority voted against Trump, so I'm happy with not there being a good reason. They think of thenselves as US citizens (even though Trump does not), and believe in the rhetoric "damn Mexicans, raping our women and stealing our jobs".
You're overanalysing it. He had plenty of opportunity to clarify, apologise, retract. He didn't. Instead he insisted in his hateful rhetoric. What he wanted with this speech is simply to demonize Mexicans for electoral gain, and oh how well that worked.
I see, you are just trolling. Sorry for replying, then. I should have just ignored you.
Wow. I gave you a direct quote from the guy and you accuse me of lying? Way to go champ! Denial of reality, dial it up to 11!
And I didn't say that his comment was racist. I said it was the textbook definition of hate speech. Check it out, see how insulting and inspiring hatred against a national group fits in the definition. And no, narrowing it down to Mexican immigrants doesn't make it any less hateful.
The idea that the Mexican government is somehow sending its undesirables to the US is just ridiculous. You would need a massive conspiracy to do that and cover it up. But lack of evidence never deterred any conspiracy theorist, so why do I bother?