Yes, at least I felt like an asshole when I saw how devastated my blogging software was after I deleted my Categories-widget she had grown very fond of... The widget didn't take it well either, but he just insulted me, didn't even pray for his life so it just made me run that rm command that much quicker.
Officially offering anything more than 1 is crazy. But the distros (all of them, even the so-called easiest to use) are caught up in the hacker mentality and they all have the same politics of "choice" that eschew a standard UI. They are hypocritical because in most distros they are not exerting pressure for totally different kernels or shell environment.
What? Since with most distros the default automated install will install exactly one (1) default desktop I will assume that the evil you're talking about is offering alternative WM's and DE's in official repositories and that they should only be available from 3rd party repositories and/or to be installed by compiling from source - needless to say that this is not your regular dumb but just silly.
People are buying products like the iPad and Android phones by the hundreds of millions. People are demanding exactly that: computers that are controlled by the "mothership" as he puts it. That's Apple's entire business model, and they're the most valuable company on the planet right now.
A common claim, which I very much doubt. I don't believe that people buying these devices, apart from maybe small fringe group, even care about it - their willingnes to buy those devices would not dimmish if there was a simple way to install (slash enable installing) of 3rd party apps, for example, especially if it were not a feature that's enabled by default. And then there are people who are not buying these (except for Android devices, in which I believe it's very small number of devices where rooting the system is not extremely simple to do) exactly because of their walled garden approach - leading to, if my theory is correct, walled garden actually hurting the sale f those devices.
The sad truth here is that Desktop Linux mostly annoys the consumers who encounter it, and a big part of that annoyance is the DE conundrum.
Apart from people (mostly who aren't part of the group they refer to) on internet criticizing desktop Linux I have not seen this... And I have some 1st hand experience, as I have turned a couple "average Joes" and a bunch of non-experts with better than average computer skills into Linux - I only remember two people who were actually happy about it when I gave them an alternative DE to supplement what they did not like (one didn't like the default interface and one had machine which ran quite a bit smoother with XFCE).
I did notice a certain growth in doubt towards Linux from couple Windows users who saw my Ion 3 desktop, but I countered that with explaining that it's a minor league alternative environment I installed and configured myself for my specific needs, and demonstrated the default Gnome and XFCE desktops to them - after that I was left with the impression that, if anything, they felt that the choice was a good thing.
Distributions offer quite well configured default DE's, and mostly, I believe, average users don't much bother themselves by thinking about other DE's - there's no reason for them to care, and that pretty much crumbles the argument that the number of available alternatives is a negative thing for success of DE Linux.
I just read it, and I don't see a serious argument there - except that we should not panic and we should try to find reasonable ways to fight problems.
The main argument seems to be that because there have been many predictions of huge catastrophe that did not come true then no such predictions will ever come true.
I know that at least the very worst predictions of AGW related catastrophes are quite exaggerated - and I know that even smart people tend to slip into exaggerating these kind of things (as well as downplay too), it's in human nature. However, do I see any proof that AGW will have only moderate economical (slash ecological) impact? No - no matter how many exaggerated cases for some other environmental issues there have been in the past.
Also, the reason why I dismiss all religious end-of-the-world scenarios - like my birthday this year - is not because there have been so many in the past and they too failed to come true. I dismiss them because they make no sense.
In short: AGW is one more environmental problem that we face, and in the end it will be overcome with a low to moderate impact to the economy, just like all the others. There will be no end of civilization, no mass famines, no apocalypse.
And how do you actually prove this claim? Or will we just wait and see which one of us gets to say "I told you so" (mind you, I don't claim to know how huge or "moderate" the effect will actually be, but I'm more concerned - and yes, afraid - than I've been of other things before)?
A rising population means more scientists, more philosophers, mathematicians, priests, musicians, engineers, writers, artists and more, in 1st world countries with free higher level education. Maybe.
Some famous last words in the crypto business: "Everyone knows OTP is unbreakable, so no-one would ever try." "It's been over a year since I last used this pad, they couldn't possibly have kept the data that long."
Why would anyone keep a used one time pad for over a year!?
Anyway, my bank uses OTP - I'm always baffled when I hear about American banks where you have just login+password - and the only thing the used pad is good for is fixing hash+weed/tobacco on it.
Oh Lord...one of those that believes what some 1800 year dead goat herder wrote about some 2000+ year dead guy, right? Its called LIGHTNING friend, and its already shown that complex chemicals form when you zap base chemicals repeatedly, enjoy the wiki article about the experiements done a half a century ago.
As opposed to an Atheism: The belief that there was nothing & nothing happened to nothing & then nothing magically exploded for no reason creating everything & then a bunch of everything magically rearranged itself for no reason which then turned into dinosaurs.
I think you're post makes some really great points, but I want to point out that this is not a claim I would expect from any atheist, nor scientist. And I'm not atheist nor christian either - I'm just bored of reading all these "nothing came from nothing" statements attributed to atheists usually by christian nutjobs with little understanding of what they are talking about (anti-theism).
The privilege to run travel business, like airline, depends on "good will" of customers to pay for such services - everyone needs to realize that this is a two way street, and criticizing, boycotting and encouraging others to boycott a company are peoples rights, not privileges...
I'm not clear what your argument is supposed to be, but I know if I were treated this way I would most certainly not use that company's services anymore - but in Finland, where I live, I would find this kind of treatment most extraordinary anyway...
Victim? What the fuck is wrong with you? Wearing an anti-TSA shirt through a TSA check point means you deserve to be fucked with. Its fucking rude, but not illegal, you're also rather fucking stupid to not expect that TSA to do THE EXACT SAME THING back to you.
Rude!? No, that's not rude at all, this is: you are a pussy and a major ass.
Why do you think you can disrespect someone and walk through there house without getting treated the same way?
Thing is, TSA is not "someone" - and if someone criticizes your working place and you take it as them disrespecting you, well you're just dumb pussy and an ass.
Wearing that shirt means he was intending to cause shit, perhaps he's just a douche bag, none the less, he made himself a target.
"Intending to cause shit"? Seriously, what the fsck is wrong with you? Work for TSA and took this personally much? Sheesh...
Should they have been harassed and thrown off the plane? No
Did they deserve it? Certainly. Again, anyone with half a brain would realize that it was a bad idea to do what he did.
You know, there are people who believe that other people will use their half brain too - they may be naive, but no, they don't "deserve it".
Victims are people who get treated badly through no fault of their own. This dude brought it on himself, he's not a victim.
That's bullshit, but I honestly believe you actually don't know that.
Uh, let me get this straight. An explosion happens in a cartoon and instead of being injured, maimed, or killed the character has his face covered in soot. This is racist? How?
Because it is an explicit reference to overt, crude and insulting parodies of black people. Its not like these are nuanced jokes. Any child could connect the dots.
I didn't, in fact I've never ever even thought that it could have anything to do with black people - but then I'm not paranoid over sensitive yank who sees racism where there is none...
Choose to forget - because they think they can get away with it easy and it won't have such negative impact on their life, career, etc. anymore if they get caught... Just shows what dickwads they have always been behind their "social masks" - they all should be fed a bag of dicks.
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I did not know there even existed any mormon-only areas on this planet... Other planets, sure, but this?
Yes, at least I felt like an asshole when I saw how devastated my blogging software was after I deleted my Categories-widget she had grown very fond of... The widget didn't take it well either, but he just insulted me, didn't even pray for his life so it just made me run that rm command that much quicker.
No, actually he invented WebTV DVR.
What an innovation, a combination of DVR and WebTV.
Officially offering anything more than 1 is crazy. But the distros (all of them, even the so-called easiest to use) are caught up in the hacker mentality and they all have the same politics of "choice" that eschew a standard UI. They are hypocritical because in most distros they are not exerting pressure for totally different kernels or shell environment.
What? Since with most distros the default automated install will install exactly one (1) default desktop I will assume that the evil you're talking about is offering alternative WM's and DE's in official repositories and that they should only be available from 3rd party repositories and/or to be installed by compiling from source - needless to say that this is not your regular dumb but just silly.
People are buying products like the iPad and Android phones by the hundreds of millions. People are demanding exactly that: computers that are controlled by the "mothership" as he puts it. That's Apple's entire business model, and they're the most valuable company on the planet right now.
A common claim, which I very much doubt. I don't believe that people buying these devices, apart from maybe small fringe group, even care about it - their willingnes to buy those devices would not dimmish if there was a simple way to install (slash enable installing) of 3rd party apps, for example, especially if it were not a feature that's enabled by default.
And then there are people who are not buying these (except for Android devices, in which I believe it's very small number of devices where rooting the system is not extremely simple to do) exactly because of their walled garden approach - leading to, if my theory is correct, walled garden actually hurting the sale f those devices.
The sad truth here is that Desktop Linux mostly annoys the consumers who encounter it, and a big part of that annoyance is the DE conundrum.
Apart from people (mostly who aren't part of the group they refer to) on internet criticizing desktop Linux I have not seen this... And I have some 1st hand experience, as I have turned a couple "average Joes" and a bunch of non-experts with better than average computer skills into Linux - I only remember two people who were actually happy about it when I gave them an alternative DE to supplement what they did not like (one didn't like the default interface and one had machine which ran quite a bit smoother with XFCE).
I did notice a certain growth in doubt towards Linux from couple Windows users who saw my Ion 3 desktop, but I countered that with explaining that it's a minor league alternative environment I installed and configured myself for my specific needs, and demonstrated the default Gnome and XFCE desktops to them - after that I was left with the impression that, if anything, they felt that the choice was a good thing.
Distributions offer quite well configured default DE's, and mostly, I believe, average users don't much bother themselves by thinking about other DE's - there's no reason for them to care, and that pretty much crumbles the argument that the number of available alternatives is a negative thing for success of DE Linux.
I did NOT deny they were real problems. I denied that they were catastrophic (as the media played at the time). Besides, have you even read the link I cited?
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/08/ff_apocalypsenot
I just read it, and I don't see a serious argument there - except that we should not panic and we should try to find reasonable ways to fight problems.
The main argument seems to be that because there have been many predictions of huge catastrophe that did not come true then no such predictions will ever come true.
I know that at least the very worst predictions of AGW related catastrophes are quite exaggerated - and I know that even smart people tend to slip into exaggerating these kind of things (as well as downplay too), it's in human nature.
However, do I see any proof that AGW will have only moderate economical (slash ecological) impact? No - no matter how many exaggerated cases for some other environmental issues there have been in the past.
Also, the reason why I dismiss all religious end-of-the-world scenarios - like my birthday this year - is not because there have been so many in the past and they too failed to come true. I dismiss them because they make no sense.
In short: AGW is one more environmental problem that we face, and in the end it will be overcome with a low to moderate impact to the economy, just like all the others. There will be no end of civilization, no mass famines, no apocalypse.
And how do you actually prove this claim? Or will we just wait and see which one of us gets to say "I told you so" (mind you, I don't claim to know how huge or "moderate" the effect will actually be, but I'm more concerned - and yes, afraid - than I've been of other things before)?
A rising population means more scientists,
more philosophers, mathematicians, priests, musicians, engineers,
writers, artists and more, in 1st world countries with free higher level education. Maybe.
There, fixed that for you...
Some famous last words in the crypto business: "Everyone knows OTP is unbreakable, so no-one would ever try." "It's been over a year since I last used this pad, they couldn't possibly have kept the data that long."
Why would anyone keep a used one time pad for over a year!?
Anyway, my bank uses OTP - I'm always baffled when I hear about American banks where you have just login+password - and the only thing the used pad is good for is fixing hash+weed/tobacco on it.
My issue is with the word "greed". It implies exploitation. Which is not a part of capitalist theory.
It's a part of reality though...
Oh Lord...one of those that believes what some 1800 year dead goat herder wrote about some 2000+ year dead guy, right? Its called LIGHTNING friend, and its already shown that complex chemicals form when you zap base chemicals repeatedly, enjoy the wiki article about the experiements done a half a century ago.
As opposed to an Atheism: The belief that there was nothing & nothing happened to nothing & then nothing magically exploded for no reason creating everything & then a bunch of everything magically rearranged itself for no reason which then turned into dinosaurs.
I think you're post makes some really great points, but I want to point out that this is not a claim I would expect from any atheist, nor scientist. And I'm not atheist nor christian either - I'm just bored of reading all these "nothing came from nothing" statements attributed to atheists usually by christian nutjobs with little understanding of what they are talking about (anti-theism).
The privilege to run travel business, like airline, depends on "good will" of customers to pay for such services - everyone needs to realize that this is a two way street, and criticizing, boycotting and encouraging others to boycott a company are peoples rights, not privileges...
I'm not clear what your argument is supposed to be, but I know if I were treated this way I would most certainly not use that company's services anymore - but in Finland, where I live, I would find this kind of treatment most extraordinary anyway...
Wearing a t-shirt with text is a really big thingy on that side of the lake, isn't it?
(guessing from your use of "Yanks")
Hey, I use that too, and I'm Finnish (or my native language word "jenkki").
In conclusion: He should not have been hassled. To me that also means that complaining about is justified.
Victim? What the fuck is wrong with you? Wearing an anti-TSA shirt through a TSA check point means you deserve to be fucked with. Its fucking rude, but not illegal, you're also rather fucking stupid to not expect that TSA to do THE EXACT SAME THING back to you.
Rude!? No, that's not rude at all, this is: you are a pussy and a major ass.
Why do you think you can disrespect someone and walk through there house without getting treated the same way?
Thing is, TSA is not "someone" - and if someone criticizes your working place and you take it as them disrespecting you, well you're just dumb pussy and an ass.
Wearing that shirt means he was intending to cause shit, perhaps he's just a douche bag, none the less, he made himself a target.
"Intending to cause shit"? Seriously, what the fsck is wrong with you? Work for TSA and took this personally much? Sheesh...
Should they have been harassed and thrown off the plane? No
Did they deserve it? Certainly. Again, anyone with half a brain would realize that it was a bad idea to do what he did.
You know, there are people who believe that other people will use their half brain too - they may be naive, but no, they don't "deserve it".
Victims are people who get treated badly through no fault of their own. This dude brought it on himself, he's not a victim.
That's bullshit, but I honestly believe you actually don't know that.
Finland.
B... b... b... but is it not the American Way to only compare yourself to those inferior to you??
Try comparing your health system with Finland or other Scandinavian countries instead of Soviet Union and Mexico sometime...
Yes, and in Finland we have a chain of shops named "musta pörssi", which translates to "black market" - it's literal black market.
In Finland the prescription 600 & 800mg pills are cheaper than 200 or 400mg OTC pills...
Uh, let me get this straight. An explosion happens in a cartoon and instead of being injured, maimed, or killed the character has his face covered in soot. This is racist? How?
Because it is an explicit reference to overt, crude and insulting parodies of black people. Its not like these are nuanced jokes. Any child could connect the dots.
I didn't, in fact I've never ever even thought that it could have anything to do with black people - but then I'm not paranoid over sensitive yank who sees racism where there is none...
Choose to forget - because they think they can get away with it easy and it won't have such negative impact on their life, career, etc. anymore if they get caught... Just shows what dickwads they have always been behind their "social masks" - they all should be fed a bag of dicks.
This is all just one great pile of BS.