Origin may be basically a steam-wannabe, but it's without realising that the reason steam doesn't piss people off very much is that they're not arseholes about what they do - the DRM is minimal and mostly unobtrusive, and they ASK people if they want to participate in their surveys rather than just abuse the fact that their software is installed and simply steal the information.
i can say that because i have real world experience rather than just libertarian fantasy dreaming - i've lived my entire life in a country that provides socialised health care, and it works exactly as i said: they provide the health care to everyone with NO attempt to weasel out of obligations. anyone here can go to a doctor or to hospital without having to worry about whether they can afford it or not.
people get the treatment they need without any lifestyle or morality or financial checks.
furthermore, medications are both price-regulated and subsidised so that nobody pays more than about $37 for a month's supply of any drug (or about $6 if they're a pensioner or on the dole).
i know all this for a fact because a) i live here and have benefited from it, and b) i'd be dead several times over (and my family would also be hundreds of thousands in debt) if i lived in some healthcare hellhole like the US rather than a civilised country like Australia. or the UK. or Cuba.
so your god is a sadistic arsehole too? it would punish me for not believing when it refuses to provide any more evidence of its existence than shiva or zeus or thor or the invisible pink unicorn?
a god like that isn't a good god, it's evil - or, in your terms, it's the devil.
it's funny how libertarian nutters believe in the exact opposite of what happens in reality.
in the real world, governments - i.e. providers of socialised health care/health insurance - don't give a fuck about what you do or eat, they provide the health care you are entitled to (i.e. whatever you need without regard for your finances) no matter what you do.
private health insurers, on the other hand, leap at any excuse to get out of their obligations - if there's anything, no matter how tiny or how irrelevant they can use to blame the patient for their misfortune, then they'll use it.
it's not true that science *can't* prove that a god or gods exist - it's more that a god which can't be proven to exist is a god that does absolutely nothing (if it did anything then that would leave some evidence which could be used to prove its existence) - and is therefore a god that may as well not exist, and is exactly the same as a god that doesn't exist.
a faith-only god is irrelevant - pointless.
anyone who believes in a creator god that made us into rational beings and then demands that we ignore our rationality and use only faith to believe in him/her/it (because it refuses to provide evidence of itself) is a fuckwit of the first order.
nobody needs to disprove Middle Earth or Beowulf because nobody believes that they're literally true. more importantly, nobody uses them as justification for murder, rape, torture and slavery - or for the violent suppresion of rational inquiry.
do you want a permanent underclass of people who have no *legal* way of making a living? when the only options people have are violent crime or starving to death, then they're not going to just give up and die for the convenience of a society that offers them nothing. only an idiot or an american - but i repeat myself - would think that is a good thing.
OTOH if they are given a chance to become part of normal society then all but a handful of the seriously fucked up and psychopaths (most of whom will shortly be back in jail) will settle down into relatively peaceful, normal lives.
the fact that the law permits such discrimination is the problem - as i said, except for some very obvious exceptions that ought to be as illegal as discrimination based on colour of skin or sexual orientation.
btw, you can shove your obvious over-compensation for your inferiority complex up your arse - the notion of american superiority is laughable. you've got more guns and more violent crime than anywhere else but you're trailing the world in pretty much everything else. i wouldn't even want to visit your fucked up fascist police state of a country, let alone live in it.
when you've done your time, you've done your time. that should be the end of it and, aside from some very limited cases like not letting pedos work with kids, discrimination against former criminals should be illegal....even a fuckwit yank should be able to figure out that if ex-crims can't get jobs and have no choice but crime to support themselves then that's what they'll do.
A spokesman for GamerGate says "since there wasn't a women involved, we have no comment on this issue but as soon as we find a woman to blame you can be sure we'll hunt her down and dox her for our crazier members to deal with".
Shit that gets said on the internet, even "fighting words," is about the least threatening form of hostile human interaction possible. As soon as it crosses into the physical world, it becomes a different thing entirely.
actually, no. there's no way of telling whether someone making death threats on the internet is just a moronic blowhard like yourself or a lunatic stalker who can and will carry out those threats.
they may be making absurdist threats like "rip off their head and skull-fuck them" but it's impossible to tell whether they're just a teenage fuckwit over-compensating for having only a tiny penis or if they're seriously deranged and dangerous.
because of that inability to distinguish, threats of violence on the internet have to be taken seriously - and the overall effect is intimidation, which inherently crosses over into the physical world.
i've watched most of her videos, and there's nothing in them that is in the least bit controversial - it's all blatantly obvious stuff that she's pointing out.
the misogyny in many video games is as obvious as the misogyny in american TV shows - and it comes from the same source: american culture is fucked up and misogynystic.
Example: Gnome. Why is gnome adding dependencies on systemd libraries ?
because RedHat wants to own Linux. The fact that they already own both gnome and systemd allows them to force systemd onto every distro that wants to support gnome.
you know, only spoilt white boys defending their priviledge talk about "reverse" racism or sexism.
it's self-serving bullshit that means "oh no! woe is me! there's a risk that someone else might get the scraps left over after white boys like me take nearly everything".
spoilt
adj 1: having the character or disposition harmed by pampering
or oversolicitous attention; "a spoiled child" [syn: {spoiled}, {spoilt}]
if you're going to be a spelling nazi, at least get a fucking clue first.
and WTF is this "Juan" shit? is that some lame attempt at a coded racist slur, implying i'm mexican or spanish or something? i don't even live in the police-state shithole known as the USA, i live in australia - mexicans are extremely rare here.
spoilt white boys often have a huge chip on their shoulder and are obsessed with denying their priviledge. it's why they make absurd strawmen and rant about them at any opportunity, regardless of whether it's relevant in context or not.
i.e. "white boys burden".
this particular spoilt white boy seems to be suffering from the idiotic meme that white males are really the oppressed victims in modern society.
as soon as they all get sold off for a fraction of their value, watch in amazement at the passing of new tough-on-crime laws that mandate 20 year sentences for jaywalking and other serious crimes.
And why did RedHat "choose" systemd? Because they had very little choice... udev has been eaten by it, and GNOME requires it.
No, it's exactly the opposite. RedHat owns systemd and gnome and udev. udev was merged into systemd and gnome depends on systemd because RH wants to own linux.
Why is everyone else joining them?
because they want to use udev and gnome and have little or no choice.
the law is even clearer than that - there's no such thing as "intellectual property". there's copyright and patents and even trademarks (and all three are completely different things with completely different laws), but "IP" doesn't exist.
one major problem with that is that you can't replace any of those 3-15 "modules" with something better (or just different) without replacing ALL of them.
this has an enormous chilling effect on innovation - the only improvements or changes permitted in any of those 3-15+ modules are those that are accepted by the systemd gatekeepers, who are not known for their acceptance of other people's ideas or code.
if systemd stuck to just being an init replacment, most people wouldn't have a problem with it. it's the fact that it's borging all sorts of other daemons that is the problem.
your sexist rant against singular "they" might have some validity if it wasn't for the fact that "they" has been used as a singular pronoun for at least 400 years (i.e. since approximately the beginning of modern english) and the fact that there are numerous nouns in the english language which can also be used as either singular or plural - "bacon" for example. it's not unusual.
in other words when using singular "they", the pronoun and antecedent *DO* match in number. No amount of ranting will change that fact.
I buy *all* of my steam games from my linux machine.
I play nearly all of them on my windows machine. I do not and will not ever use this machine for anything other than playing games - and certainly never use it for any purchases or financial transactions. neither my paypal account nor my credit card details will ever be used on this machine - windows is just too vulnerable and prone to malware to be trusted for that.
if i couldn't see windows-only games while logged in using a linux browser, i'd never be able to buy windows games.
That's not discrimination... that's just low tolerance for bullshit. It has nothing to do with the employee's own politics. Only with the fact that he was objecting -- publicly -- ABOUT his boss's politics, whatever they happen to be.
yeah, uppity employees need to be put in their place! can't have them expressing opinions that their bosses don't like, especially in public. they need to learn to shut up and keep their heads down. it's just a shame that it's not legal to whip them any more, all you can do these days is fire them.
most chip production is still at 28nm or larger, so 200nm is less than 10 times larger....which is still a negative.
on the positive side, though, it switches at terahertz rates - and even assuming that means only 1 Thz, that's still 200-250 times faster than the roughly 4-5 Gigahertz that current top-of-the-line CPUs switch at.
10 times the size for 250 times the speed...for non-mobile applications like a desktop or server CPU - or for a GPU - the larger size would almost certainly be worth it.
also, it's not just about taxing rich individuals, it's about correctly taxing giant corporations so that instead of paying 0.05% or similar they pay the same tax rates that everyone else - including individuals and small companies that aren't big enough to "offshore" profits to a tax haven - has to pay.
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Origin may be basically a steam-wannabe, but it's without realising that the reason steam doesn't piss people off very much is that they're not arseholes about what they do - the DRM is minimal and mostly unobtrusive, and they ASK people if they want to participate in their surveys rather than just abuse the fact that their software is installed and simply steal the information.
i can say that because i have real world experience rather than just libertarian fantasy dreaming - i've lived my entire life in a country that provides socialised health care, and it works exactly as i said: they provide the health care to everyone with NO attempt to weasel out of obligations. anyone here can go to a doctor or to hospital without having to worry about whether they can afford it or not.
people get the treatment they need without any lifestyle or morality or financial checks.
furthermore, medications are both price-regulated and subsidised so that nobody pays more than about $37 for a month's supply of any drug (or about $6 if they're a pensioner or on the dole).
i know all this for a fact because a) i live here and have benefited from it, and b) i'd be dead several times over (and my family would also be hundreds of thousands in debt) if i lived in some healthcare hellhole like the US rather than a civilised country like Australia. or the UK. or Cuba.
so your god is a sadistic arsehole too? it would punish me for not believing when it refuses to provide any more evidence of its existence than shiva or zeus or thor or the invisible pink unicorn?
a god like that isn't a good god, it's evil - or, in your terms, it's the devil.
it's funny how libertarian nutters believe in the exact opposite of what happens in reality.
in the real world, governments - i.e. providers of socialised health care/health insurance - don't give a fuck about what you do or eat, they provide the health care you are entitled to (i.e. whatever you need without regard for your finances) no matter what you do.
private health insurers, on the other hand, leap at any excuse to get out of their obligations - if there's anything, no matter how tiny or how irrelevant they can use to blame the patient for their misfortune, then they'll use it.
it's not true that science *can't* prove that a god or gods exist - it's more that a god which can't be proven to exist is a god that does absolutely nothing (if it did anything then that would leave some evidence which could be used to prove its existence) - and is therefore a god that may as well not exist, and is exactly the same as a god that doesn't exist.
a faith-only god is irrelevant - pointless.
anyone who believes in a creator god that made us into rational beings and then demands that we ignore our rationality and use only faith to believe in him/her/it (because it refuses to provide evidence of itself) is a fuckwit of the first order.
nobody needs to disprove Middle Earth or Beowulf because nobody believes that they're literally true. more importantly, nobody uses them as justification for murder, rape, torture and slavery - or for the violent suppresion of rational inquiry.
do you want a permanent underclass of people who have no *legal* way of making a living? when the only options people have are violent crime or starving to death, then they're not going to just give up and die for the convenience of a society that offers them nothing. only an idiot or an american - but i repeat myself - would think that is a good thing.
OTOH if they are given a chance to become part of normal society then all but a handful of the seriously fucked up and psychopaths (most of whom will shortly be back in jail) will settle down into relatively peaceful, normal lives.
the fact that the law permits such discrimination is the problem - as i said, except for some very obvious exceptions that ought to be as illegal as discrimination based on colour of skin or sexual orientation.
btw, you can shove your obvious over-compensation for your inferiority complex up your arse - the notion of american superiority is laughable. you've got more guns and more violent crime than anywhere else but you're trailing the world in pretty much everything else. i wouldn't even want to visit your fucked up fascist police state of a country, let alone live in it.
why are americans such judgemental pricks?
when you've done your time, you've done your time. that should be the end of it and, aside from some very limited cases like not letting pedos work with kids, discrimination against former criminals should be illegal....even a fuckwit yank should be able to figure out that if ex-crims can't get jobs and have no choice but crime to support themselves then that's what they'll do.
A spokesman for GamerGate says "since there wasn't a women involved, we have no comment on this issue but as soon as we find a woman to blame you can be sure we'll hunt her down and dox her for our crazier members to deal with".
actually, no. there's no way of telling whether someone making death threats on the internet is just a moronic blowhard like yourself or a lunatic stalker who can and will carry out those threats.
they may be making absurdist threats like "rip off their head and skull-fuck them" but it's impossible to tell whether they're just a teenage fuckwit over-compensating for having only a tiny penis or if they're seriously deranged and dangerous.
because of that inability to distinguish, threats of violence on the internet have to be taken seriously - and the overall effect is intimidation, which inherently crosses over into the physical world.
it IS a personal attack - their right to attack women is being questioned.
you can't put limits on someone's entitlements and expect them not to get pissed off about it.
that is complete bullshit.
i've watched most of her videos, and there's nothing in them that is in the least bit controversial - it's all blatantly obvious stuff that she's pointing out.
the misogyny in many video games is as obvious as the misogyny in american TV shows - and it comes from the same source: american culture is fucked up and misogynystic.
because RedHat wants to own Linux. The fact that they already own both gnome and systemd allows them to force systemd onto every distro that wants to support gnome.
you know, only spoilt white boys defending their priviledge talk about "reverse" racism or sexism.
it's self-serving bullshit that means "oh no! woe is me! there's a risk that someone else might get the scraps left over after white boys like me take nearly everything".
I wrote "spoilt" and i meant "spoilt'.
spoilt
adj 1: having the character or disposition harmed by pampering
or oversolicitous attention; "a spoiled child" [syn: {spoiled}, {spoilt}]
if you're going to be a spelling nazi, at least get a fucking clue first.
and WTF is this "Juan" shit? is that some lame attempt at a coded racist slur, implying i'm mexican or spanish or something? i don't even live in the police-state shithole known as the USA, i live in australia - mexicans are extremely rare here.
spoilt white boys often have a huge chip on their shoulder and are obsessed with denying their priviledge. it's why they make absurd strawmen and rant about them at any opportunity, regardless of whether it's relevant in context or not.
i.e. "white boys burden".
this particular spoilt white boy seems to be suffering from the idiotic meme that white males are really the oppressed victims in modern society.
as soon as they all get sold off for a fraction of their value, watch in amazement at the passing of new tough-on-crime laws that mandate 20 year sentences for jaywalking and other serious crimes.
No, it's exactly the opposite. RedHat owns systemd and gnome and udev. udev was merged into systemd and gnome depends on systemd because RH wants to own linux.
because they want to use udev and gnome and have little or no choice.
the law is even clearer than that - there's no such thing as "intellectual property". there's copyright and patents and even trademarks (and all three are completely different things with completely different laws), but "IP" doesn't exist.
one major problem with that is that you can't replace any of those 3-15 "modules" with something better (or just different) without replacing ALL of them.
this has an enormous chilling effect on innovation - the only improvements or changes permitted in any of those 3-15+ modules are those that are accepted by the systemd gatekeepers, who are not known for their acceptance of other people's ideas or code.
if systemd stuck to just being an init replacment, most people wouldn't have a problem with it. it's the fact that it's borging all sorts of other daemons that is the problem.
your sexist rant against singular "they" might have some validity if it wasn't for the fact that "they" has been used as a singular pronoun for at least 400 years (i.e. since approximately the beginning of modern english) and the fact that there are numerous nouns in the english language which can also be used as either singular or plural - "bacon" for example. it's not unusual.
in other words when using singular "they", the pronoun and antecedent *DO* match in number. No amount of ranting will change that fact.
no, it's convenient. and more secure.
I buy *all* of my steam games from my linux machine.
I play nearly all of them on my windows machine. I do not and will not ever use this machine for anything other than playing games - and certainly never use it for any purchases or financial transactions. neither my paypal account nor my credit card details will ever be used on this machine - windows is just too vulnerable and prone to malware to be trusted for that.
if i couldn't see windows-only games while logged in using a linux browser, i'd never be able to buy windows games.
yeah, uppity employees need to be put in their place! can't have them expressing opinions that their bosses don't like, especially in public. they need to learn to shut up and keep their heads down. it's just a shame that it's not legal to whip them any more, all you can do these days is fire them.
most chip production is still at 28nm or larger, so 200nm is less than 10 times larger....which is still a negative.
on the positive side, though, it switches at terahertz rates - and even assuming that means only 1 Thz, that's still 200-250 times faster than the roughly 4-5 Gigahertz that current top-of-the-line CPUs switch at.
10 times the size for 250 times the speed...for non-mobile applications like a desktop or server CPU - or for a GPU - the larger size would almost certainly be worth it.
also, it's not just about taxing rich individuals, it's about correctly taxing giant corporations so that instead of paying 0.05% or similar they pay the same tax rates that everyone else - including individuals and small companies that aren't big enough to "offshore" profits to a tax haven - has to pay.