If I'm going to pay that much for a phone (which I'm not, but anyway), it'll be to a company at least theoretically within my country's jurisdiction...
Typically my only reason to get some exotic Chinese thing (as opposed to some non-exotic merely Chinese-made thing) is price. If the price is the same high price, what's the point?
That's the Conservative Pac Man you're describing. The Liberal Pac Man...
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No, the Liberal Pac Man is a poseur who expects someone else to take care of the world's problems because he is too busy trying to be cool to actually get his hands dirty.
He also insists that you call him Zhe Pacman. He identifies that way.
Rather than attack the messenger, please point to the evidence contradicting the story's evidence. Not everybody automatically responds positively to, "it's fake news!"
Um, sorry, no, it's actually the NYT's job to establish a claim of this sort, since they are the ones making it. Not the job of the entire freakin internet to refute it.
current and former American officials said
who spoke on the condition of anonymity so they could discuss classified intelligence and sensitive security arrangements.
So it's completely unverifiable. We just have to trust the NYT. And their unbiased approach to... Trump. And to Republicans in general.
American parents. I don't really see a better alternative. Google has its wrongs, but I do not really see too many, if any institutions which have any more moral perspectives than Google.
Right. Now Yemeni or Venezuelan parents, they're the shizzle.
Also, this caravan - if it comes to a border point - this is legal asylum seeking.
The hell it is.
Asylum from what? The countries they are so proudly waving the flags of? Did Jews escaping Germany wave nazi flags?
This is a deliberate stunt, to import more democrat voters (for hopefully future elections, but you never know once they get the warm bodies here).
And it's deliberately timed to coincide with elections. Which isn't the smart move you think it is. Most people don't want lawlessness and chaos, and most people don't want to add more people to the already creaking welfare system.
how much plastic there was in people's stool before the industrial revolution!
You jest, but some very interesting stuff has been added to food over the centuries (sometimes by the eaters themselves). Not very clean sawdust in flour, for example.
Please think about how to treat other participants with respect, especially when you disagree with them. For instance, call them by the names they use, and honor their preferences about their gender identity.
See, this is itself an aggressive move, an exertion of power over others.
E.g. when someone is clearly a man, but they "ask" you to refer to them as a woman, and various institutions throw their weight behind that "request", and if you object or decline to participate in it you are labeled (and treated) as some sort of aggressor... well, someone in this equation isn't being "kind", but it isn't who you might think.
I understand that the proponents of "self identification" don't see it that way.
The outage underscores the challenge Amazon faces as it looks to move completely off Oracle's database by 2020, and how difficult it is to re-create that level of reliability. It also shows that Oracle's database is more efficient in some aspects than Amazon's rival software, a point that Oracle will likely emphasize during this week's annual OpenWorld conference in San Francisco.
Nothing in the article really supports those conclusions.
Was it due to some actual inferiority in "their own technology" (postgresql?), or was it just a migration issue?
2. I disagree with making "diversity" a goal. If the developers in a
specific free software project do not include demographic D, I don't
think that the lack of them as a problem that requires action; there
is no need to scramble desperately to recruit some Ds. Rather, the
problem is that if we make demographic D feel unwelcome, we lose out
on possible contributors. And very likely also others that are not in
demographic D.
There is a kind of diversity that would benefit many free software
projects: diversity of users in regard to skill levels and kinds of
usage. However, that is not what people usually mean by "diversity".
"White House officials believe tech workers are willing to "put politics aside.""
Politics, yes, But not rabid nationalism, raping the environment for personal gain, hating on different cultures/religions/sexual orientations, dumping on women and setting the world on a war footing –NO!
You are 1. assuming what you are trying to prove, and 2. literally engaging in politics.
Probably not even going to happen, but if so I will also be tweaking about:config to turn it off , even though it would only appear if I browsed an unsecured wireless network, which I never do.
Firefox is still the best browser overall and they have to try and earn some money somehow. Pale Moon? Really?
Funny,
I remember in school learning how evil it was to black list actors based on their political views. So now IT and Hollywood brag about black listing based on political views.
This code of conduct has proven its mettle in thousands of diverse communities for over 1,500 years, and has served as a baseline for many civil law codes since the time of Charlemagne.
Yeah, well... uh... er... but what do celebs think of it, huh? Gotcha there!
European cars in the US are built to US rules, and are somewhat different than their local-market models.
Indeed. Some of the differences can include:
- No differentiated fuel tank holes to only fit nozzles giving the right fuel.
- No key lock on the fuel cap.
- Rear fog lights are usually disconnected, because Americans have no restraint and think they should be used when visibility is more than 10m/30ft.
- No splash guards.
- No knock-off safety mirrors, hood ornaments or antennas.
- No way to manually disable airbags (like for transporting elderly or backward facing child seats)
- No orange rear blinkers.
- No warning triangle or safety vests.
- Yellow headlights (which penetrate fog better) are not allowed.
- For older cars, no longwave radio.
- For newer cars, no DAB+ radio.
- For FM, only bands 9 kHz apart are available, not switchable to 10 kHz.
- No Galileo satellites on the nav system, only GPS and GLONASS. Galileo has too good resolution to have been approved.
- For cars with hotspot functionality, no WiFi channels 12-14 on the 2.4 GHz band.
- Voice assistants are female sounding, not male.... and commonly softer suspension and wider seats.
That just gives you a frisson of excitement to type that, doesn't it?
He's suggesting that we'd be less horrified if he were a liberal rather than something resembling a fascist, which I can't argue with. Far-right ideologies have proven to be harmful every time they've been tried, so we should be horrified by them.
Now I'm not Brazilian, nor do I follow Brazilian politics, so I don't know. But nothing in the fine article shows him to be a fascist (unless I totally missed it). Yes, lots of shadowy innuendo and such, but being familiar with US politics, I'm not going to take that seriously without some sort of smoking gun.
Presumably if there were any airtight examples of his "fascism", they'd be laid out for us.
youtube is a great tool for the illiterate or functionally illiterate. People talking into a camera do so because 1. They probably couldn't write a coherent article/essay about what they're trying to say and B. their audience either couldn't or wouldn't read something like that.
You could (and many did) say that about TV.
For some of the audience, it's true enough. For others, not.
I always thought the criticism was rather overblown, and somewhat class-ist (or wannabe class-ist). Nobody gives you grief if you go see a lot of live action plays and musicals, for example. But watch them on TV, and suddenly you are rotting your brain, you are illiterate, etc.
Isolated cases where You Tube may or may not have influenced elections does not mean that You Tubers in general have all that much power. I really doubt many people will vote XYZ just because someone on You Tube told them to.
And why should we care if someone on YouTube "influences" an election anyway?
We're supposed to "influence" each other politically by communicating... that's literally how its supposed to work.
Sure beats influencing each other via violence, firing people for their political opinions, and other popular methods of the day.
Slashdot Mirror
... so this is a good focus :)
"ChiCom" is a fake word invented by that drug addict felon on the radio, right?
You think that Chinese Communism is fake?
Is it any real surprise that a high percentage of blockchain sites are kind of shady?
What?? The deuce, you say!
Pyramid scheme fake currency sounds like reliable, non-shady stuff to me, thank you very much!
it was simply a Gmail address with a profile picture found by image searching "Russian actor."
Zounds! Now even fake Russians are undermining the integrity of our ... er ... blockchain news blogs?
If I'm going to pay that much for a phone (which I'm not, but anyway), it'll be to a company at least theoretically within my country's jurisdiction ...
Typically my only reason to get some exotic Chinese thing (as opposed to some non-exotic merely Chinese-made thing) is price. If the price is the same high price, what's the point?
That's the Conservative Pac Man you're describing. The Liberal Pac Man ...
-
No, the Liberal Pac Man is a poseur who expects someone else to take care of the world's problems because he is too busy trying to be cool to actually get his hands dirty.
He also insists that you call him Zhe Pacman. He identifies that way.
Pac-Man might no longer be homicidal, but he still has a severe eating disorder.
He prefers to think of himself as "differently hungry".
Rather than attack the messenger, please point to the evidence contradicting the story's evidence. Not everybody automatically responds positively to, "it's fake news!"
Um, sorry, no, it's actually the NYT's job to establish a claim of this sort, since they are the ones making it. Not the job of the entire freakin internet to refute it.
current and former American officials said
who spoke on the condition of anonymity so they could discuss classified intelligence and sensitive security arrangements.
So it's completely unverifiable. We just have to trust the NYT. And their unbiased approach to ... Trump. And to Republicans in general.
Uh huh.
American parents. I don't really see a better alternative. Google has its wrongs, but I do not really see too many, if any institutions which have any more moral perspectives than Google.
Right. Now Yemeni or Venezuelan parents, they're the shizzle.
It's always those dang Americans ...
Who is advocating wide open borders? The only time I ever see it mentioned is on Fox News or at a Trump rally.
And who's talking about "brown people"? The only time I ever see it mentioned is by leftists, who seem obsessed with race.
Anytime someone wants less than wide open borders, your lot gets upset. Therefore, you want wide open borders. It's not rocket science.
Also, this caravan - if it comes to a border point - this is legal asylum seeking.
The hell it is.
Asylum from what? The countries they are so proudly waving the flags of? Did Jews escaping Germany wave nazi flags?
This is a deliberate stunt, to import more democrat voters (for hopefully future elections, but you never know once they get the warm bodies here).
And it's deliberately timed to coincide with elections. Which isn't the smart move you think it is. Most people don't want lawlessness and chaos, and most people don't want to add more people to the already creaking welfare system.
how much plastic there was in people's stool before the industrial revolution!
You jest, but some very interesting stuff has been added to food over the centuries (sometimes by the eaters themselves). Not very clean sawdust in flour, for example.
And? Is there some provable harm from them?
Probably trace amounts of lots of interesting stuff in our waste ...
Please think about how to treat other participants with respect, especially when you disagree with them. For instance, call them by the names they use, and honor their preferences about their gender identity.
See, this is itself an aggressive move, an exertion of power over others.
E.g. when someone is clearly a man, but they "ask" you to refer to them as a woman, and various institutions throw their weight behind that "request", and if you object or decline to participate in it you are labeled (and treated) as some sort of aggressor ... well, someone in this equation isn't being "kind", but it isn't who you might think.
I understand that the proponents of "self identification" don't see it that way.
The outage underscores the challenge Amazon faces as it looks to move completely off Oracle's database by 2020, and how difficult it is to re-create that level of reliability. It also shows that Oracle's database is more efficient in some aspects than Amazon's rival software, a point that Oracle will likely emphasize during this week's annual OpenWorld conference in San Francisco.
Nothing in the article really supports those conclusions.
Was it due to some actual inferiority in "their own technology" (postgresql?), or was it just a migration issue?
2. I disagree with making "diversity" a goal. If the developers in a specific free software project do not include demographic D, I don't think that the lack of them as a problem that requires action; there is no need to scramble desperately to recruit some Ds. Rather, the problem is that if we make demographic D feel unwelcome, we lose out on possible contributors. And very likely also others that are not in demographic D.
There is a kind of diversity that would benefit many free software projects: diversity of users in regard to skill levels and kinds of usage. However, that is not what people usually mean by "diversity".
"White House officials believe tech workers are willing to "put politics aside.""
Politics, yes, But not rabid nationalism, raping the environment for personal gain, hating on different cultures/religions/sexual orientations, dumping on women and setting the world on a war footing –NO!
You are 1. assuming what you are trying to prove, and 2. literally engaging in politics.
Probably not even going to happen, but if so I will also be tweaking about:config to turn it off , even though it would only appear if I browsed an unsecured wireless network, which I never do. Firefox is still the best browser overall and they have to try and earn some money somehow. Pale Moon? Really?
What's wrong with Pale Moon?
Funny, I remember in school learning how evil it was to black list actors based on their political views. So now IT and Hollywood brag about black listing based on political views.
Interesting.
Silly, it's OK when we do it!
However, White House officials believe tech workers are willing to "put politics aside."
As partisan as our current political climate is, the idea of people putting politics aside is optimistic at best.....
No, it's simple. Put politics aside and just agree with the obvious goodness and rightness of what I believe! ;)
This code of conduct has proven its mettle in thousands of diverse communities for over 1,500 years, and has served as a baseline for many civil law codes since the time of Charlemagne.
Yeah, well ... uh ... er ... but what do celebs think of it, huh? Gotcha there!
European cars in the US are built to US rules, and are somewhat different than their local-market models.
Indeed. Some of the differences can include: - No differentiated fuel tank holes to only fit nozzles giving the right fuel. - No key lock on the fuel cap. - Rear fog lights are usually disconnected, because Americans have no restraint and think they should be used when visibility is more than 10m/30ft. - No splash guards. - No knock-off safety mirrors, hood ornaments or antennas. - No way to manually disable airbags (like for transporting elderly or backward facing child seats) - No orange rear blinkers. - No warning triangle or safety vests. - Yellow headlights (which penetrate fog better) are not allowed. - For older cars, no longwave radio. - For newer cars, no DAB+ radio. - For FM, only bands 9 kHz apart are available, not switchable to 10 kHz. - No Galileo satellites on the nav system, only GPS and GLONASS. Galileo has too good resolution to have been approved. - For cars with hotspot functionality, no WiFi channels 12-14 on the 2.4 GHz band. - Voice assistants are female sounding, not male. ... and commonly softer suspension and wider seats.
That just gives you a frisson of excitement to type that, doesn't it?
He's suggesting that we'd be less horrified if he were a liberal rather than something resembling a fascist, which I can't argue with. Far-right ideologies have proven to be harmful every time they've been tried, so we should be horrified by them.
Now I'm not Brazilian, nor do I follow Brazilian politics, so I don't know. But nothing in the fine article shows him to be a fascist (unless I totally missed it). Yes, lots of shadowy innuendo and such, but being familiar with US politics, I'm not going to take that seriously without some sort of smoking gun.
Presumably if there were any airtight examples of his "fascism", they'd be laid out for us.
youtube is a great tool for the illiterate or functionally illiterate. People talking into a camera do so because 1. They probably couldn't write a coherent article/essay about what they're trying to say and B. their audience either couldn't or wouldn't read something like that.
You could (and many did) say that about TV.
For some of the audience, it's true enough. For others, not.
I always thought the criticism was rather overblown, and somewhat class-ist (or wannabe class-ist). Nobody gives you grief if you go see a lot of live action plays and musicals, for example. But watch them on TV, and suddenly you are rotting your brain, you are illiterate, etc.
Isolated cases where You Tube may or may not have influenced elections does not mean that You Tubers in general have all that much power. I really doubt many people will vote XYZ just because someone on You Tube told them to.
And why should we care if someone on YouTube "influences" an election anyway?
We're supposed to "influence" each other politically by communicating ... that's literally how its supposed to work.
Sure beats influencing each other via violence, firing people for their political opinions, and other popular methods of the day.