> Maybe I take exception to the level of hate directed at the
Maybe because some of us simply prefer not to use systemd, and see piles and piles of hate and derision directed at us. Some of that hatred has come directly from Lennart Poettering, as well.
I'm rather surprised that the Cable / ISPs managed to beat the airline industry here. Must be either short-term memory, or maybe a lot of people don't fly often.
At least the Cable / ISPs don't physically drag you away from your TV or computer screen. Nor are you at all liekly to need pat-down searches for TV or internet.
Perhaps this is because the court does not reflect the Executive, at least not yet.
Our current President gets a good portion of his income from rent-seeking, (licensing the Trump name) and probably considers that to be "good business." Since it's good business, I would expect him to favor that kind of enterprise, and discourage limitations on it.
I started with Cyrus, then after UWash IMAP got its mbx format, I moved to that, in order to simplify. Then a few years later I moved to Dovecot, and have been there since.
I was about to mention that story, but did a quick check to see if someone else had. I'm sure the late Dr. A. would be pleased to hear about this, though saddened to hear of the path leading to it.
That's a matter of perception. "activists" vs "actual". Others may see the issue exactly the opposite way as you. Both side can shout "You're WRONG!" at each other until they're blue in the faces.
Really, at the end of the day, Global Warming will be a litmus test on this. If the Republicans are right on this issue, things will continue similarly to the way they've been, with minor variations. If the Democrats are right, we're in a heap of trouble unless we take corrective action. But on this matter, Nature will be the judge, and all the shouting and blue faces won't make a speck of difference.
The problem with that is that while OpenVPN works and is relatively straightforward to set up, it's not the best performer in town. I have an OpenVPN endpoint too, and use it in situations that make sense for me.
I don't believe your default route is one of them. Whatever VPN I end up using, I'm probably going to take known sites and send them straight out. I'm not concerned about anyone knowing that I visit Slashdot, Ars Technica, Google, Amazon, Newegg, etc. What I'm concerned about are the other sites - the places I go based on a (https-based, of course) Google search.
I've also been considering getting a VPN service. I run OpenVPN, in order to get to my home network while away. I've found a service, and one of the VPNs they support is OpenVPN. But I've heard that OpenVPN isn't that great in terms of performance. It doesn't matter now, because I don't push that much traffic through it.
But if the VPN is becoming my default route, performance will be much more important. Which has also let me to realize that I'll probably do somewhat messy routing, letting primary sites go directly out, while "other stuff" goes through the VPN. I don't care if advertisers know I visit Slashdot or Ars Technica, nor if I go to Amazon. It's all of those other links, like non-Amazon shopping or medical searches. Who cares if they watch me downloading OSS to compiler for Gentoo?
I would really like to see Alastair Reynolds' "Pushing Ice" done as a three-parter. It was a good story at the time, but it also struck me as being particularly adaptable to movie form. So often making a movie means hacking the book to pieces. "Pushing Ice" was already broken into three pieces by the author, and each piece seemed to me to have about movie-length scope.
What, you're talking about fifth-order technology with no nods to Richard Seaton and Martin Crane? I think I'll just leave it at that, and see how old this makes me.
WWI and WWII got so bad, at least partly because of strategic alliances. Even if you're not directly involved, if you have a mutual assistance pact with some other nation, and they get involved in a conflict, you're involved too. The question is what happens when this chain of involvement leads to each side having a nuclear-armed power.
There will always be wars - perhaps. The difference is how hot those wars get, who is involved, etc. That Trump doesn't seem to be into mutual assistance might actually be a positive for avoiding nuclear war. That Trump seems to be in favor of nuclear proliferation (Let them defend themselves.) is a decided negative.
Life goes on, almost certainly. Human life is a bit less certain. Civilized human life is far less certain yet.
The US military recognizes that global warming puts stress on people and governments. Human life can prosper with a changed climate, but it can't always continue in-place. People may have to move, because their current habitation may no longer be habitable. If that movement requires crossing national borders, it becomes an international incident.
That's why global warming advances the Doomsday Clock - its side-effects on national sovereignty and politics.
Bloatware, privacy, support, all send you to something other than stock.
T-Mobile stopped supporting my Relay at JB. At least with CM I've got KK, and there are words indicating that CM's successor is going to bring out Nougat for it. (Didn't know that could happen, thought the graphics was too primitive, but I'll take it.)
From what I've read, it's not so much little Johnny and his sniffles as it is the meat and poultry he eats. Our livestock, particularly the factory-farm variety, get antibiotics routinely.
I seem to once remember hearing another example of nanostructures finding their way into cells easily, and it didn't go well for the cell, in the longer run. I certainly hope they're doing extended life testing with this.
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> Maybe I take exception to the level of hate directed at the
Maybe because some of us simply prefer not to use systemd, and see piles and piles of hate and derision directed at us. Some of that hatred has come directly from Lennart Poettering, as well.
I'm rather surprised that the Cable / ISPs managed to beat the airline industry here. Must be either short-term memory, or maybe a lot of people don't fly often.
At least the Cable / ISPs don't physically drag you away from your TV or computer screen. Nor are you at all liekly to need pat-down searches for TV or internet.
Just don't take any motorcycles to Mars. Simple.
Perhaps this is because the court does not reflect the Executive, at least not yet.
Our current President gets a good portion of his income from rent-seeking, (licensing the Trump name) and probably considers that to be "good business." Since it's good business, I would expect him to favor that kind of enterprise, and discourage limitations on it.
I started with Cyrus, then after UWash IMAP got its mbx format, I moved to that, in order to simplify. Then a few years later I moved to Dovecot, and have been there since.
I was about to mention that story, but did a quick check to see if someone else had. I'm sure the late Dr. A. would be pleased to hear about this, though saddened to hear of the path leading to it.
That's a matter of perception. "activists" vs "actual". Others may see the issue exactly the opposite way as you. Both side can shout "You're WRONG!" at each other until they're blue in the faces.
Really, at the end of the day, Global Warming will be a litmus test on this. If the Republicans are right on this issue, things will continue similarly to the way they've been, with minor variations. If the Democrats are right, we're in a heap of trouble unless we take corrective action. But on this matter, Nature will be the judge, and all the shouting and blue faces won't make a speck of difference.
The problem with that is that while OpenVPN works and is relatively straightforward to set up, it's not the best performer in town. I have an OpenVPN endpoint too, and use it in situations that make sense for me.
I don't believe your default route is one of them. Whatever VPN I end up using, I'm probably going to take known sites and send them straight out. I'm not concerned about anyone knowing that I visit Slashdot, Ars Technica, Google, Amazon, Newegg, etc. What I'm concerned about are the other sites - the places I go based on a (https-based, of course) Google search.
I've also been considering getting a VPN service. I run OpenVPN, in order to get to my home network while away. I've found a service, and one of the VPNs they support is OpenVPN. But I've heard that OpenVPN isn't that great in terms of performance. It doesn't matter now, because I don't push that much traffic through it.
But if the VPN is becoming my default route, performance will be much more important. Which has also let me to realize that I'll probably do somewhat messy routing, letting primary sites go directly out, while "other stuff" goes through the VPN. I don't care if advertisers know I visit Slashdot or Ars Technica, nor if I go to Amazon. It's all of those other links, like non-Amazon shopping or medical searches. Who cares if they watch me downloading OSS to compiler for Gentoo?
But, but, but, but HILLARY!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Too bad I commented on this thread earlier, because I have mod points.
Which raises a red flag to every TLA around, saying "Add this guy to the watch list."
I'd be more worried about not having the second wormhole open to the complementary dimension, to prevent accumulation of plot-badness in ours.
I would really like to see Alastair Reynolds' "Pushing Ice" done as a three-parter. It was a good story at the time, but it also struck me as being particularly adaptable to movie form. So often making a movie means hacking the book to pieces. "Pushing Ice" was already broken into three pieces by the author, and each piece seemed to me to have about movie-length scope.
They've done Gaiman before. I rather liked "Neverwhere", though the low budget showed.
On the Beeb, at least something original (to the screen) is coming.
What, you're talking about fifth-order technology with no nods to Richard Seaton and Martin Crane? I think I'll just leave it at that, and see how old this makes me.
We saw Mordor sinking at the end of "Return of the King", so that must be the rest of the missing NZ continent.
This too may have passed. I expect the rest of the world to be more resistant to the US exporting much of anything, policy-wise, for the near future.
I hope that trend continues and your confidence is well founded.
WWI and WWII got so bad, at least partly because of strategic alliances. Even if you're not directly involved, if you have a mutual assistance pact with some other nation, and they get involved in a conflict, you're involved too. The question is what happens when this chain of involvement leads to each side having a nuclear-armed power.
There will always be wars - perhaps. The difference is how hot those wars get, who is involved, etc. That Trump doesn't seem to be into mutual assistance might actually be a positive for avoiding nuclear war. That Trump seems to be in favor of nuclear proliferation (Let them defend themselves.) is a decided negative.
Life goes on, almost certainly.
Human life is a bit less certain.
Civilized human life is far less certain yet.
The US military recognizes that global warming puts stress on people and governments. Human life can prosper with a changed climate, but it can't always continue in-place. People may have to move, because their current habitation may no longer be habitable. If that movement requires crossing national borders, it becomes an international incident.
That's why global warming advances the Doomsday Clock - its side-effects on national sovereignty and politics.
Bloatware, privacy, support, all send you to something other than stock.
T-Mobile stopped supporting my Relay at JB. At least with CM I've got KK, and there are words indicating that CM's successor is going to bring out Nougat for it. (Didn't know that could happen, thought the graphics was too primitive, but I'll take it.)
From what I've read, it's not so much little Johnny and his sniffles as it is the meat and poultry he eats. Our livestock, particularly the factory-farm variety, get antibiotics routinely.
I seem to once remember hearing another example of nanostructures finding their way into cells easily, and it didn't go well for the cell, in the longer run. I certainly hope they're doing extended life testing with this.
The baton has not been passed/grabbed since the beginning of the nuclear age. We live in "Interesting Times," I fear.