Not only this, but having lived many years abroad, AlJazeera is without doubt one of the top two or three news organizations in the world. Their reporters and reporting is a breath of fresh air in a world dominated by local news being broadcast as world news (think Fox, CNN, MSNBC, CCTV, and most news services around the world). While they do have an opinion and an attitude, it is worn on the outside without shame. It is very hard to get realistic news about the US inside the US, maybe now we will be able to.
Pure Skinnerian Behaviorism: Positive reinforcement: getting rewarded for doing something Negative reinforcement: Being ignored for doing something Punishment: Being punished for doing something
The most powerful force for change is a continuing use of Both positive and negative reinforcement for the same action. Punishment, on the other hand, will often (but not reliably) encourage the behavior being punished.
The science of behavior has been understood for more than 50 years, but nobody really uses it. Certainly it does not get properly taught or implemented in places like prisons and jails or in the legal system.
I just spent three days with my daughter and her husband and two kids, one fresh minted. My daughter was equal of behind my son in ability and general intelligence, but far ahead of him in social skills. She made friends, played well with other kids, listened non-judgmentally to the teacher and made perfect grades. Now she has a husband who is a successful small businessman, works part-time for her city as a financial admin, and part time at home as an accountant for a fairly large one-person company that does admin for small cities that don't want full-time on -site staff. She has a busy, but very successful life.
Her brother, while brilliant has spent most of his life searching for a community that he can fit in to. Finally he ended up with the "Old-Order" Mennonites. No electricity, cars, modern anything. Strict Bible is the exact word of the great and wonderful God in the sky
Compared to what happened for "old and new" in Holland that is lame indeed. Amsterdam is, well, there is no word for what it is like. All I can say is that the streets are 4-8" deep in firecracker wrappers the following morning, and I don't even really remember the firecrackers: especially compared to the "big rockets" going off every second and in every direction from 11 PM to 5 AM the next morning. Even compared to China at Spring festival Amsterdam is incomparable.
Back in the late 60's my older brother had a small bore brass mortar cast for himself at some historical artifact kind of foundry in New England. The bore was exactly the same diameter as the inside of a tennis ball. When "Flag Day" came (does anyone else remember "flag Day?") he decided to make it "Flag Week" and offered to take down and fold the flag for our father every day. I was volunteered to help him out in the folding and taking down part.
What no one realized was that he was going to give a "salute" every evening as well, with the mortar and some "special " rounds he had prepared. The rounds were made of concrete mix with a cherry bomb on the inside and the tip end of the fuse (which was wrapped in tinfoil) just sticking out of the ball (which was made by cutting open a tennis ball, packing in the cherry bomb and concrete mix and then using rubber bands to hold it all together while the concrete set). My brother would charge the mortar, pack it (with newspaper) and drop the ball in with the tip of the fuse pointing toward the charge. Then he would fire it with a long wooden match.
The ball would fly up and over the lake on the other side of the street, explode at the height of the arc and, between the charge and the explosion of the ball, rattle every window on the street. Then he and I would take down the flag, carefully and reverentially fold it, and put it away for the next day when our father (who of course was not home yet) would put the flag up on his way to work.
It was about day 3 as I recall when the neighbors caught up with dad and told him what was up.
on the East Coast, around Shanghai, metric is standard and it is standard metric. But, back in the day (2000-2002) we lived in Kunming, in the far southwest and the measurements were like the rest of Kunming: the wild west ruled. You would be quoted prices in what you thought were metric, but instead were traditional, thus getting ripped off. If you stopped to argue someone would sneak in and pickpocket you, so you lost double just for standing up about the trick. Haven't been back to the market in Kunming since then (visited quite a bit over the years, but that is different) but remember the games we had to play to get fair prices back then.
I was working for Samsung as an English teacher for some middle managers, 2 or 3 days a week back in 2010/11. They ran a great operation, the line managers were Chinese and were most interested in quality assurance than anything else. Their big stress was that the top managers wanted new ideas for improving quality on the line on a weekly basis. And if they didn't have any ideas for a few months they were eased out of management and were quickly looking for a job with someone else (LG also ran monitor fabs in the same city).
Seriously, those guys ran a top-notch shop, their greatest problem with labor was the line workers kept trying to sneak their smart phones into the floor: totally verbotten to have ANY electronics on the floor. I had to get special dispensation to bring a pendrive into the admin area to have my lessons, videos, audio files, etc.
and Veriscum gives me 15 down and 5 up for $55 a month. I use it.... sometimes..... but when I test it, it is there. And we run a fair number of devices most of the day here at the house (3 desktops, 3 laptops, two tablets, two smartphones and an Internet enabled TV -- with no cable, only internet--) So I can't complain too much. I also refuse to pay extra for bandwidth we don't need right now.
Agreed on the AMD with an AM3 board. I helped my daughter build a Phenom Black quad core for her birthday 3 or 4 years ago and she still uses it for her primary illustration/art/project machine in University now. I would love to rebuild one of those for myself actually, although the APU is more what I want at this point, which uses a different socket.
no issues, just typical lazy people. If you work someplace where people are working more than 8 hours a day, then you are being mistreated and underpaid. A strike is what is called for, because your company is mistreating you by not providing adequate personnel to do the work. If you or others are spending your personal time (anything over 8 hours a day) on company work, then you are being cheated out of your LIFE.
Look man/woman/person, I had my own companies and worked my butt of 14 or 16 hours a day to run multiple companies and make mad cash. Now I am 55+ and can barely work 6 or 8 hours a day without running down in a few weeks. My vacation started back at the beginning of December and I am just now getting my stregth reserves back to where I can wake up and feel good after 9 or ten hours of sleep.
It wasn't worth it. All that money has little value when you feel like crap after an easy day's work, and you still want to work but can barely get up in the morning after going to bed at 9 the night before. Seriously, find another job, that's what I did and it is why I am still alive now.
The most true part of what happened however was that the 5 year old was completely uninterested in the "weird things" that the people were doing. I've raised 6 kids and at age five they really are not interested in sex. Later, yes, very interested, later than that, ver, very, very interested. By my age, obsessed, but forget about the 5 year olds, we need to protect the middle-aged to older guys from these disturbing images! Please!
It is true, so very true! Unfortunately you don't seem to really understand that the companies are following the laws, laws of the USA, laws of Ireland and laws of the Cayman Islands. The companies (plural, you understand plural, right?) are each sovereign corporations in those countries. They are free to act as any corporate individual can act under the laws of the country they are citizens of. So, the Google corp in the US chooses to pay the Google corp in Ireland crazy,massive amounts of cash to perform services for the US Google. They have the right to do that of course. The Google corp of Ireland choose to pay the Google corp in the Cayman Islands mad crazy insane cash to perform some other service for them. There is not problem with that either, it is their right.
Unfortunately, my dear friends, no country has the right or the power to reach across the borders of a friendly, allied country (if you do it to an unfriendly country it is usually because of war) and tell them how to write their tax laws. I don't think you would want, say, the UK to reach into Washington DC and tell our lawmakers how they must write our tax laws do you?
There is a solution to this of course. We could turn all tax law jurisdiction over to the United Nations so that we could have a unified tax system all over the world and the taxes could be utilized to improve the world for everyone. Wouldn't that be the best thing to do, for everyone?
Hmm, funny, how much you hate that idea, very....funny...
At work the people with multiple monitors do not actually use the extra monitor for anything other than personal email, shopping, youtube fun and lolcats. It is a status symbol and seems somehow connected to the group that comes to work at 10 in the morning and works "late" (which is until 7) unlike the dweebs and proles (who come to work at 8 or 8:30 and stay until 5 or 5:30- notice the people who "work late" work the same amount of hours but claim moral victory because they "work late every day"). Believe it or not, most people believe this crap. I was offered a position working as one of the "work late" crowd, but it didn't work out. I could do all the work in about 4 hours which, since I came in at 7, meant that I was finished with my day about the same time they were finishing their first coffee and beginning their day. Obviously it couldn't last.
So I bought a cheap Vizio 42" Internet Enabled. Now, I know, I am not you and I watch very little TV (less than 8 hours a week, often much less) and neither does anyone else in my family (we just do too many other things) but I have zero complaints with my Vizio. We use Hulu Plus for some stuff, Netflix for the rest. We have only the internet connection (FIOS) and pump bits to three desktops, three laptops, two tablets and two phones, for 55 a month plus the NF and HP costs (@16 a month). I've got a 6 or 7 year old Dell minibox that I can use for a media center to play DVDs to the TV, but we seldom use it. So what is it that I'm missing? Obviously, for my family, nothing except a buttload of commercials. If we really want something we can browse through the attached PC, but we watched the Presidential debates on a small screen since we get tired of bullshit very quickly.
There was a time, boys and girls, when businesses thought so highly of their personnel that they would provide them raises and promotions in accord with their real value to the company. This real value was a reflection of the work they had done and not the degree they had gotten from university "wonderful" and not their relationship to the second cousin of the vice-president of marketing. The company would also recognize, as did the employee, that keeping the employee happy and well fed was the best way to maximize the value of that employee, because they liked their job and their company and wanted to stay their until retirement. The employee would speak proudly of their company and the company would recognize that the foundation of the company's success was based on the work of the employees.
Only a few decades ago this was possible, but now it is gone.
I'm probably one of the few people in the world who bought a "tablet PC" to use instead of a laptop/netbook. I prefer my desktop for almost everything, but when I'm on the road with my 2007 2,5 Gen mobile phone the tablet (especially with a bluetooth keyboard) serves any mobile computing needs I might have. So, no smartphone, no laptop, just a desktop and a tablet. It works.
Right, so let's ignore the story about the Chinese man who attacked 27 kids in China with a knife the same week as the Newtown massacre. No children died, the attacker was captured and is in prison. No deaths, no weapons used (even by the police). Now tell me again that letting mentally ill people have weapons is not the problem.?!
yeah, while i don't use Arch, the reply to a lot of the complaints above is just "Arch." I have tried Arch in the past, but wasn't skilled enough yet. Now I might be (and maybe it is easier now than back then) but it has a lot of things I like. Damn good crew of folks working on it too.
As the husband of a Traditional Chinese doctor, the basic foundation of the practice has to do with the balance of the body, especially as relates to the digestive function. Many of the traditional diagnostics relate to the digestive tract and the digestive organs. While my wife is trained in acupuncture, and uses it for supplementation, her primary focus is Herbology, which can do amazing things. You aren't going to see any real testing of what she does in the west though because it does not work with a single active ingredient, rather with complex interactions of some rather powerful natural products. (and let's not talk about the animal rights aspects of bear gall and rhino horn, etc: these products all have less destructive replacements, besides their primary use for old men to get an erection when they really just need to get a life). I showed her TFA, she said, "hmmm, about time."
I would like to quietly add that one other result of all this fear and paranoia is gun purchases. Read other topics, especially ones that appeal to preppers and survivalists (which is to say people who have had a long cold draught of the terror kool-aid) and you see how important it is to the fearful to own a gun. Actually, many guns of awesome destructive power if possible.
The driving force behind these purchases is not the beauty or aesthetic value of the tool. No, it's all about it's power and ability to kill a lot of people and quickly. All because of fear that someone else is out to get you. Look at what Mr LaPierre had to say the other day about how we should have armed vigilantees protecting our schools and society in general (does anyone else read his " only a good guy with a gun can stop a bad guy with a gun" statement this way?).
When my dad (career Army for 32 years and two wars, followed by 16 years in the civil service doing war gaming for the Pentagon) died we were shocked to find that, besides his inherited weapons (78 caliber squirrel hunting musket, bolt action something from WWI, 22 caliber varmint rifle that my mom had been given as a child and never shot) there was, hidden on a shelf in his closet and unknown to my mom, a 38 caliber handgun with 5 or 6 cartridges that may have been his personal handgun from Korea. My older brother (museum curator for the Army museum system) took it apart and marveled at the fact it hadn't been cleaned in so long that firing it without serious attention would probably kill you. He's still got it.
Do you get the message? We are a service family, have been for generations, and refuse to own any weapons for "personal protection." We are not afraid, we trust our government because we have worked for it and know that there are some fine people doing excellent things for the people of this country as a part of their job every day. To avoid being called a Pollyanna,I will freely admit that there are problems, corruption of the electoral process, lobbyists writing laws, revolving door corporate shills in high positions, you can all chime in with your favorites, but you can look back at any time in the past of this country and find similar problems in every generation and iteration of our government. Still we struggle on and avoid the apocalypse that is being preached by the fear-mongers.
Happy Holidays! And pray that no one gives you a gun for a present.
But as a teacher about to move my classes onto GA next semester I am interested to know what extra services they will provide and whether I should get my department to pony up for the business level with support. This would be good for us since the support part has been a real problem for the vast majority of technophobe faculty, or if no exactly phobic then merely confused (sorry, no anecdotes, out of respect for my colleagues).
Thank you for the anecdote, almost a one to one with me, fortunately one thing I studied extensively was conspiracy theory and how they came about (the psych of conspiracy theory) so I generally understand that idiots run the world and couldn't conspire their way out of a wet paper bag. That has saved me a lot of agony and fear.
But it is frustrating that almost no one else seems to understand it.
notice that fedora (rpm, not apt) is also supported for somethings which means they cover almost all the distros, exceptions being distros that use a gentoo/slack type system.
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Not only this, but having lived many years abroad, AlJazeera is without doubt one of the top two or three news organizations in the world. Their reporters and reporting is a breath of fresh air in a world dominated by local news being broadcast as world news (think Fox, CNN, MSNBC, CCTV, and most news services around the world). While they do have an opinion and an attitude, it is worn on the outside without shame. It is very hard to get realistic news about the US inside the US, maybe now we will be able to.
Pure Skinnerian Behaviorism:
Positive reinforcement: getting rewarded for doing something
Negative reinforcement: Being ignored for doing something
Punishment: Being punished for doing something
The most powerful force for change is a continuing use of Both positive and negative reinforcement for the same action. Punishment, on the other hand, will often (but not reliably) encourage the behavior being punished.
The science of behavior has been understood for more than 50 years, but nobody really uses it. Certainly it does not get properly taught or implemented in places like prisons and jails or in the legal system.
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I just spent three days with my daughter and her husband and two kids, one fresh minted. My daughter was equal of behind my son in ability and general intelligence, but far ahead of him in social skills. She made friends, played well with other kids, listened non-judgmentally to the teacher and made perfect grades. Now she has a husband who is a successful small businessman, works part-time for her city as a financial admin, and part time at home as an accountant for a fairly large one-person company that does admin for small cities that don't want full-time on -site staff. She has a busy, but very successful life.
Her brother, while brilliant has spent most of his life searching for a community that he can fit in to. Finally he ended up with the "Old-Order" Mennonites. No electricity, cars, modern anything. Strict Bible is the exact word of the great and wonderful God in the sky
Compared to what happened for "old and new" in Holland that is lame indeed. Amsterdam is, well, there is no word for what it is like. All I can say is that the streets are 4-8" deep in firecracker wrappers the following morning, and I don't even really remember the firecrackers: especially compared to the "big rockets" going off every second and in every direction from 11 PM to 5 AM the next morning. Even compared to China at Spring festival Amsterdam is incomparable.
Back in the late 60's my older brother had a small bore brass mortar cast for himself at some historical artifact kind of foundry in New England. The bore was exactly the same diameter as the inside of a tennis ball. When "Flag Day" came (does anyone else remember "flag Day?") he decided to make it "Flag Week" and offered to take down and fold the flag for our father every day. I was volunteered to help him out in the folding and taking down part.
What no one realized was that he was going to give a "salute" every evening as well, with the mortar and some "special " rounds he had prepared. The rounds were made of concrete mix with a cherry bomb on the inside and the tip end of the fuse (which was wrapped in tinfoil) just sticking out of the ball (which was made by cutting open a tennis ball, packing in the cherry bomb and concrete mix and then using rubber bands to hold it all together while the concrete set). My brother would charge the mortar, pack it (with newspaper) and drop the ball in with the tip of the fuse pointing toward the charge. Then he would fire it with a long wooden match.
The ball would fly up and over the lake on the other side of the street, explode at the height of the arc and, between the charge and the explosion of the ball, rattle every window on the street. Then he and I would take down the flag, carefully and reverentially fold it, and put it away for the next day when our father (who of course was not home yet) would put the flag up on his way to work.
It was about day 3 as I recall when the neighbors caught up with dad and told him what was up.
Good times!
on the East Coast, around Shanghai, metric is standard and it is standard metric. But, back in the day (2000-2002) we lived in Kunming, in the far southwest and the measurements were like the rest of Kunming: the wild west ruled. You would be quoted prices in what you thought were metric, but instead were traditional, thus getting ripped off. If you stopped to argue someone would sneak in and pickpocket you, so you lost double just for standing up about the trick. Haven't been back to the market in Kunming since then (visited quite a bit over the years, but that is different) but remember the games we had to play to get fair prices back then.
I was working for Samsung as an English teacher for some middle managers, 2 or 3 days a week back in 2010/11. They ran a great operation, the line managers were Chinese and were most interested in quality assurance than anything else. Their big stress was that the top managers wanted new ideas for improving quality on the line on a weekly basis. And if they didn't have any ideas for a few months they were eased out of management and were quickly looking for a job with someone else (LG also ran monitor fabs in the same city).
Seriously, those guys ran a top-notch shop, their greatest problem with labor was the line workers kept trying to sneak their smart phones into the floor: totally verbotten to have ANY electronics on the floor. I had to get special dispensation to bring a pendrive into the admin area to have my lessons, videos, audio files, etc.
and Veriscum gives me 15 down and 5 up for $55 a month. I use it .... sometimes..... but when I test it, it is there. And we run a fair number of devices most of the day here at the house (3 desktops, 3 laptops, two tablets, two smartphones and an Internet enabled TV -- with no cable, only internet--)
So I can't complain too much. I also refuse to pay extra for bandwidth we don't need right now.
Agreed on the AMD with an AM3 board. I helped my daughter build a Phenom Black quad core for her birthday 3 or 4 years ago and she still uses it for her primary illustration/art/project machine in University now. I would love to rebuild one of those for myself actually, although the APU is more what I want at this point, which uses a different socket.
no issues, just typical lazy people. If you work someplace where people are working more than 8 hours a day, then you are being mistreated and underpaid. A strike is what is called for, because your company is mistreating you by not providing adequate personnel to do the work. If you or others are spending your personal time (anything over 8 hours a day) on company work, then you are being cheated out of your LIFE.
Look man/woman /person, I had my own companies and worked my butt of 14 or 16 hours a day to run multiple companies and make mad cash. Now I am 55+ and can barely work 6 or 8 hours a day without running down in a few weeks. My vacation started back at the beginning of December and I am just now getting my stregth reserves back to where I can wake up and feel good after 9 or ten hours of sleep.
It wasn't worth it. All that money has little value when you feel like crap after an easy day's work, and you still want to work but can barely get up in the morning after going to bed at 9 the night before. Seriously, find another job, that's what I did and it is why I am still alive now.
The most true part of what happened however was that the 5 year old was completely uninterested in the "weird things" that the people were doing. I've raised 6 kids and at age five they really are not interested in sex. Later, yes, very interested, later than that, ver, very, very interested. By my age, obsessed, but forget about the 5 year olds, we need to protect the middle-aged to older guys from these disturbing images! Please!
It is true, so very true! Unfortunately you don't seem to really understand that the companies are following the laws, laws of the USA, laws of Ireland and laws of the Cayman Islands. The companies (plural, you understand plural, right?) are each sovereign corporations in those countries. They are free to act as any corporate individual can act under the laws of the country they are citizens of. So, the Google corp in the US chooses to pay the Google corp in Ireland crazy,massive amounts of cash to perform services for the US Google. They have the right to do that of course. The Google corp of Ireland choose to pay the Google corp in the Cayman Islands mad crazy insane cash to perform some other service for them. There is not problem with that either, it is their right.
Unfortunately, my dear friends, no country has the right or the power to reach across the borders of a friendly, allied country (if you do it to an unfriendly country it is usually because of war) and tell them how to write their tax laws. I don't think you would want, say, the UK to reach into Washington DC and tell our lawmakers how they must write our tax laws do you?
There is a solution to this of course. We could turn all tax law jurisdiction over to the United Nations so that we could have a unified tax system all over the world and the taxes could be utilized to improve the world for everyone. Wouldn't that be the best thing to do, for everyone?
Hmm, funny, how much you hate that idea, very....funny...
At work the people with multiple monitors do not actually use the extra monitor for anything other than personal email, shopping, youtube fun and lolcats. It is a status symbol and seems somehow connected to the group that comes to work at 10 in the morning and works "late" (which is until 7) unlike the dweebs and proles (who come to work at 8 or 8:30 and stay until 5 or 5:30- notice the people who "work late" work the same amount of hours but claim moral victory because they "work late every day"). Believe it or not, most people believe this crap. I was offered a position working as one of the "work late" crowd, but it didn't work out. I could do all the work in about 4 hours which, since I came in at 7, meant that I was finished with my day about the same time they were finishing their first coffee and beginning their day. Obviously it couldn't last.
yeah, fedora with xmbc does as much and more, but i don't bother most of the time
So I bought a cheap Vizio 42" Internet Enabled. Now, I know, I am not you and I watch very little TV (less than 8 hours a week, often much less) and neither does anyone else in my family (we just do too many other things) but I have zero complaints with my Vizio. We use Hulu Plus for some stuff, Netflix for the rest. We have only the internet connection (FIOS) and pump bits to three desktops, three laptops, two tablets and two phones, for 55 a month plus the NF and HP costs (@16 a month). I've got a 6 or 7 year old Dell minibox that I can use for a media center to play DVDs to the TV, but we seldom use it. So what is it that I'm missing? Obviously, for my family, nothing except a buttload of commercials. If we really want something we can browse through the attached PC, but we watched the Presidential debates on a small screen since we get tired of bullshit very quickly.
Nope, life is good.
There was a time, boys and girls, when businesses thought so highly of their personnel that they would provide them raises and promotions in accord with their real value to the company. This real value was a reflection of the work they had done and not the degree they had gotten from university "wonderful" and not their relationship to the second cousin of the vice-president of marketing. The company would also recognize, as did the employee, that keeping the employee happy and well fed was the best way to maximize the value of that employee, because they liked their job and their company and wanted to stay their until retirement. The employee would speak proudly of their company and the company would recognize that the foundation of the company's success was based on the work of the employees.
Only a few decades ago this was possible, but now it is gone.
I'm probably one of the few people in the world who bought a "tablet PC" to use instead of a laptop/netbook. I prefer my desktop for almost everything, but when I'm on the road with my 2007 2,5 Gen mobile phone the tablet (especially with a bluetooth keyboard) serves any mobile computing needs I might have. So, no smartphone, no laptop, just a desktop and a tablet. It works.
Right, so let's ignore the story about the Chinese man who attacked 27 kids in China with a knife the same week as the Newtown massacre. No children died, the attacker was captured and is in prison. No deaths, no weapons used (even by the police). Now tell me again that letting mentally ill people have weapons is not the problem.?!
yeah, while i don't use Arch, the reply to a lot of the complaints above is just "Arch." I have tried Arch in the past, but wasn't skilled enough yet. Now I might be (and maybe it is easier now than back then) but it has a lot of things I like. Damn good crew of folks working on it too.
As the husband of a Traditional Chinese doctor, the basic foundation of the practice has to do with the balance of the body, especially as relates to the digestive function. Many of the traditional diagnostics relate to the digestive tract and the digestive organs. While my wife is trained in acupuncture, and uses it for supplementation, her primary focus is Herbology, which can do amazing things. You aren't going to see any real testing of what she does in the west though because it does not work with a single active ingredient, rather with complex interactions of some rather powerful natural products. (and let's not talk about the animal rights aspects of bear gall and rhino horn, etc: these products all have less destructive replacements, besides their primary use for old men to get an erection when they really just need to get a life). I showed her TFA, she said, "hmmm, about time."
I would like to quietly add that one other result of all this fear and paranoia is gun purchases. Read other topics, especially ones that appeal to preppers and survivalists (which is to say people who have had a long cold draught of the terror kool-aid) and you see how important it is to the fearful to own a gun. Actually, many guns of awesome destructive power if possible.
The driving force behind these purchases is not the beauty or aesthetic value of the tool. No, it's all about it's power and ability to kill a lot of people and quickly. All because of fear that someone else is out to get you. Look at what Mr LaPierre had to say the other day about how we should have armed vigilantees protecting our schools and society in general (does anyone else read his " only a good guy with a gun can stop a bad guy with a gun" statement this way?).
When my dad (career Army for 32 years and two wars, followed by 16 years in the civil service doing war gaming for the Pentagon) died we were shocked to find that, besides his inherited weapons (78 caliber squirrel hunting musket, bolt action something from WWI, 22 caliber varmint rifle that my mom had been given as a child and never shot) there was, hidden on a shelf in his closet and unknown to my mom, a 38 caliber handgun with 5 or 6 cartridges that may have been his personal handgun from Korea. My older brother (museum curator for the Army museum system) took it apart and marveled at the fact it hadn't been cleaned in so long that firing it without serious attention would probably kill you. He's still got it.
Do you get the message? We are a service family, have been for generations, and refuse to own any weapons for "personal protection." We are not afraid, we trust our government because we have worked for it and know that there are some fine people doing excellent things for the people of this country as a part of their job every day. To avoid being called a Pollyanna,I will freely admit that there are problems, corruption of the electoral process, lobbyists writing laws, revolving door corporate shills in high positions, you can all chime in with your favorites, but you can look back at any time in the past of this country and find similar problems in every generation and iteration of our government. Still we struggle on and avoid the apocalypse that is being preached by the fear-mongers.
Happy Holidays! And pray that no one gives you a gun for a present.
But as a teacher about to move my classes onto GA next semester I am interested to know what extra services they will provide and whether I should get my department to pony up for the business level with support. This would be good for us since the support part has been a real problem for the vast majority of technophobe faculty, or if no exactly phobic then merely confused (sorry, no anecdotes, out of respect for my colleagues).
Thank you for the anecdote, almost a one to one with me, fortunately one thing I studied extensively was conspiracy theory and how they came about (the psych of conspiracy theory) so I generally understand that idiots run the world and couldn't conspire their way out of a wet paper bag. That has saved me a lot of agony and fear.
But it is frustrating that almost no one else seems to understand it.
notice that fedora (rpm, not apt) is also supported for somethings which means they cover almost all the distros, exceptions being distros that use a gentoo/slack type system.