It's actually about neither. From what I can tell, it's about getting stuff for free.
Quite seriously. If you want equality, you will have no bigger ally than me. If you want preferential treatment, you won't find a bigger enemy. Because then you're pretty much the kind of asshole you accuse me to be: Someone who thinks that they should get something for free just because they have the "right" gender, race, sexual preference or place of birth.
Next thing you'll tell us that we thought black people can be owned, right? Or trying to ease us slowly into it and didn't want to drop that bombshell yet? Hope I didn't spoil your surprise.
This is actually a huge issue. If you really want equality and not just some token feelgood bullshit, let's start with eliminating "maternity" leave and turn it into "parental" leave, with mandatory equal times for husband and wife. As long as this ain't the case, there is actually a very real incentive for employers to prefer men over women, simply due to a lower chance of losing them for a few months or even years, depending on the country you're in.
Well, since I enjoy watching those morons and their videos, I think I finally got how they tick. It seems they think that "science" means "something someone made up and everyone thought is cool". To them, it seems, that the way people (and scientists in particular) come to conclusions is by popular vote. We want it to be that way, so it is that way. So in their mind, all we have to do to change what we consider reality is to convince more people of some harebrained bullshit.
I'm not kidding nor exaggerating. The more I watch those videos, the more I get the impression that they really think "science" means "making some shit up and then convincing people of it".
With a little bit more effort, they could have succeeded. You know, all that work of cutting him out when all you really had to do is clog the tube and wait. Just think of the clicks and views that would've gotten!
The problem is less pieces of shit, it's more the far out fringe idiots.
A couple years ago I lauded the internet for being a place where people who otherwise felt they are the only person with a certain condition or handicap can actually go and find others who share it and make them feel like they're not alone in the world. And yes, the internet also allowed people with some weird ass fetish to meet others who share that kind of... preference. And while I don't want to go there, I'm happy for them to have found someone else they can enjoy themselves.
Unfortunately it also meant that the retards who have some really weird concept of how the world works (or should work) find others who share their, let's say, very special concept of reality and reinforce their belief that this could actually be true.
So we now don't just have to deal with religions (with increasingly strange and bizarre belief systems) but also flat/hollow/whatever Earthers, people who honestly think the moon is hollow or that we live in some kind of snow globe and even stranger bullshit. What makes it worse is that they now have a platform to spread that bullshit because, hey, look, I'm not crazy! They think the same way I do!
Want to bet that within 10 years some loudmouthed idiot group demands to teach the flat earth model as "an alternative theory" to the globe model because we should "teach the controversy"?
Old workers in mid/large companies have one incredibly useful superpower: They know people and their quirks, and they know processes better than SAP and process managers combined (especially how those processes really run, not just what's on paper) and more importantly, they know how to bypass them. They know how to cut the red tape and who to talk to to get on the fastpass for resources. They can sit down with some other old fart in another department, have a cup of coffee and get a "free" test machine for you, they know the people who know where hardware is being hoarded that isn't used (and can be put to good use). And so on.
We had one such "old guy" in our team. His knowledge was dated and we mostly needed him for the ancient servers that we just couldn't turn off yet but aside of that, he was incredibly valuable whenever we needed something and couldn't go the formal way (or when we didn't have the time to wait for official channels to clear). When he retired, we lost our main source for "free" hardware, quick access and useful "connections" to other departments. He was also very useful in deadlocked meetings where he could take someone he knew personally from another department aside, ask for the real reason why they're stalling (or give him the hint why we have to) and they could hash out an "informal" solution together that both sides can work with. Saved us literally weeks of pointless meetings.
Yes, such people are poison and bane for process managers, but they're a boon for your department, especially if you're drowning in bureaucracy.
Windows is a very complex system. Not necessarily because it needs to be complex, but rather because of "wouldn't it be great if we could also..." thinking. Take the registry. Good idea in its core, a centralized repository for all configuration files. Great. But wouldn't it be nice if we could also store some states in there? And we could put the device database in there, too. And how about the security settings? And...
And eventually you had the mess you have now, where we're again putting configuration files into the %appdata% directory. But when we have configuration in there already anyway, couldn't we... and we could sync this for roaming, ya know...
Which is the second MS disease. How many users actually need roaming? 2, maybe 3 out of 10? The rest is working on a stationary desktop, never moving, never roaming. But they have to have this feature, needed or not. And if you take a look through the services, you'll notice that a lot of services that you simply know you don't need MUST run because the OS needs them for some freakish reason. Because of "wouldn't it be great if this service did also...".
systemd now brought this to the Linux world. Yes, it can do a lot. But unfortunately it does so, whether you need it or not. And it requires you to take these "features" into account when configuring it, even if you have exactly zero use for them and wouldn't potentially not even know just wtf they're supposed to do.
systemd is as overengineered as many Windows components. And thus of course as error prone. And while it can make things more manageable for huge systems, everything becomes more convoluted and complicated for anyone that has no use for these "wouldn't it be great if it also..." features.
I have no problem there. And I actually also don't have a problem with him getting fucked by some big cocked black guy in his favorite public toilet.
I have a problem with him claiming some moral high ground and spouting bullshit like how fags are going to hell. But I'm sure his god will forgive him, he always does to the real believers, no matter what kind of asshole they really are.
Why should they be different than others who pretend to be "philanthropists" because they "gave" a fraction of a percent of their income to some investment disguised as a good deed?
You mean the ones crying the loudest about morals are also the worst offenders? It's almost like they're just like the right wing religious nutjobs that get caught cheating on their wife with some guy in a public toilet...
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It's actually about neither. From what I can tell, it's about getting stuff for free.
Quite seriously. If you want equality, you will have no bigger ally than me. If you want preferential treatment, you won't find a bigger enemy. Because then you're pretty much the kind of asshole you accuse me to be: Someone who thinks that they should get something for free just because they have the "right" gender, race, sexual preference or place of birth.
There was gender discrimination in the past?
Next thing you'll tell us that we thought black people can be owned, right? Or trying to ease us slowly into it and didn't want to drop that bombshell yet? Hope I didn't spoil your surprise.
This is actually a huge issue. If you really want equality and not just some token feelgood bullshit, let's start with eliminating "maternity" leave and turn it into "parental" leave, with mandatory equal times for husband and wife. As long as this ain't the case, there is actually a very real incentive for employers to prefer men over women, simply due to a lower chance of losing them for a few months or even years, depending on the country you're in.
Actually, in my experience, it's mostly the women that suck. Some men, too, but they're kinda queer.
(go on and mod as you please, I got karma to burn and I simply could not let this joke pass)
We have to encourage them to outdo each other. With a hint of luck, the next one tries it without an air pipe, you know, to one-up the other one.
Well, since I enjoy watching those morons and their videos, I think I finally got how they tick. It seems they think that "science" means "something someone made up and everyone thought is cool". To them, it seems, that the way people (and scientists in particular) come to conclusions is by popular vote. We want it to be that way, so it is that way. So in their mind, all we have to do to change what we consider reality is to convince more people of some harebrained bullshit.
I'm not kidding nor exaggerating. The more I watch those videos, the more I get the impression that they really think "science" means "making some shit up and then convincing people of it".
They're entitled to their own opinion, that's why they don't meet in public.
There are still mail clients that don't disable loading images by default?
And they get used?
Then I guess the people using them don't mind being tracked. Where's the story?
Before the internet, you had to join a church if you wanted this.
Your Soylent Green analogy fails.
Soylent Green is quiet and filling. Facebook is noisy and leaves you feeling kinda empty.
And as long as idiots stay at Facebook because they think it's all the internet is, we can still enjoy the internet.
Face it, Facebook took over the valuable service AOL provided before them: Keeping the idiots caged in.
Can't they just create a YouTube account, put their head into the microwave and cement it in?
With a little bit more effort, they could have succeeded. You know, all that work of cutting him out when all you really had to do is clog the tube and wait. Just think of the clicks and views that would've gotten!
I know I would've clicked. But so... bah.
The problem is less pieces of shit, it's more the far out fringe idiots.
A couple years ago I lauded the internet for being a place where people who otherwise felt they are the only person with a certain condition or handicap can actually go and find others who share it and make them feel like they're not alone in the world. And yes, the internet also allowed people with some weird ass fetish to meet others who share that kind of ... preference. And while I don't want to go there, I'm happy for them to have found someone else they can enjoy themselves.
Unfortunately it also meant that the retards who have some really weird concept of how the world works (or should work) find others who share their, let's say, very special concept of reality and reinforce their belief that this could actually be true.
So we now don't just have to deal with religions (with increasingly strange and bizarre belief systems) but also flat/hollow/whatever Earthers, people who honestly think the moon is hollow or that we live in some kind of snow globe and even stranger bullshit. What makes it worse is that they now have a platform to spread that bullshit because, hey, look, I'm not crazy! They think the same way I do!
Want to bet that within 10 years some loudmouthed idiot group demands to teach the flat earth model as "an alternative theory" to the globe model because we should "teach the controversy"?
Not on the internet. The presence of a computer shaves about 10-20 points off the IQ of the average person. 30 if he has a PhD.
I started out doing tech support for such people. In the presence of a computer, even otherwise very intelligent people behave like complete idiots.
Now imagine what these machines can do to the average idiot.
Espionage == communism, I get it?
So ... First we take Manhatten, then we take Berlin....
Old workers in mid/large companies have one incredibly useful superpower: They know people and their quirks, and they know processes better than SAP and process managers combined (especially how those processes really run, not just what's on paper) and more importantly, they know how to bypass them. They know how to cut the red tape and who to talk to to get on the fastpass for resources. They can sit down with some other old fart in another department, have a cup of coffee and get a "free" test machine for you, they know the people who know where hardware is being hoarded that isn't used (and can be put to good use). And so on.
We had one such "old guy" in our team. His knowledge was dated and we mostly needed him for the ancient servers that we just couldn't turn off yet but aside of that, he was incredibly valuable whenever we needed something and couldn't go the formal way (or when we didn't have the time to wait for official channels to clear). When he retired, we lost our main source for "free" hardware, quick access and useful "connections" to other departments. He was also very useful in deadlocked meetings where he could take someone he knew personally from another department aside, ask for the real reason why they're stalling (or give him the hint why we have to) and they could hash out an "informal" solution together that both sides can work with. Saved us literally weeks of pointless meetings.
Yes, such people are poison and bane for process managers, but they're a boon for your department, especially if you're drowning in bureaucracy.
Windows is a very complex system. Not necessarily because it needs to be complex, but rather because of "wouldn't it be great if we could also..." thinking. Take the registry. Good idea in its core, a centralized repository for all configuration files. Great. But wouldn't it be nice if we could also store some states in there? And we could put the device database in there, too. And how about the security settings? And ...
And eventually you had the mess you have now, where we're again putting configuration files into the %appdata% directory. But when we have configuration in there already anyway, couldn't we... and we could sync this for roaming, ya know...
Which is the second MS disease. How many users actually need roaming? 2, maybe 3 out of 10? The rest is working on a stationary desktop, never moving, never roaming. But they have to have this feature, needed or not. And if you take a look through the services, you'll notice that a lot of services that you simply know you don't need MUST run because the OS needs them for some freakish reason. Because of "wouldn't it be great if this service did also...".
systemd now brought this to the Linux world. Yes, it can do a lot. But unfortunately it does so, whether you need it or not. And it requires you to take these "features" into account when configuring it, even if you have exactly zero use for them and wouldn't potentially not even know just wtf they're supposed to do.
systemd is as overengineered as many Windows components. And thus of course as error prone. And while it can make things more manageable for huge systems, everything becomes more convoluted and complicated for anyone that has no use for these "wouldn't it be great if it also..." features.
Don't blame on systemd which can be sufficiently explained with being an /. editor.
Judging by her looks, aardvark?
And guess what: That's African and Asians coming in legally.
Again: Wanna trade? Most people here would gladly do so.
I have no problem there. And I actually also don't have a problem with him getting fucked by some big cocked black guy in his favorite public toilet.
I have a problem with him claiming some moral high ground and spouting bullshit like how fags are going to hell. But I'm sure his god will forgive him, he always does to the real believers, no matter what kind of asshole they really are.
No, we're shaming those homosexuals that are shaming homosexuals.
If they want that, go to Europe.
Why should they be different than others who pretend to be "philanthropists" because they "gave" a fraction of a percent of their income to some investment disguised as a good deed?
Mostly 'cause it gave them a tax break, anyway...
You mean the ones crying the loudest about morals are also the worst offenders? It's almost like they're just like the right wing religious nutjobs that get caught cheating on their wife with some guy in a public toilet...