I have 8.1. barebones android phone (nokia) and it has no email client other than gmail that I could find when I got it. The only installed browser was chrome.
Other end I forgot to mention is God complex, falsely believing that humanity has a messianic role to play, rather than being part of their environment.
Literally, topic. I don't like chrome on android because it has no add-ons that I feel are necessary for browsing. It would also be nice to be able to remove gmail for an actually decent POP3/IMAP email client. Pretty much the only things I use from google are maps and play store, and I'd love for play store de facto monopoly to go away. And as for maps, here maps are on par or better than google's around here.
It wouldn't hurt if they also removed all the tracking, but I don't dare even dream about that. Tracking people is google's core business, and that thing will be taken out of their cold, dead hands only.
Fuck my life. I remember seeing one moose that was felled by hunters where they literally had to skin it in a certain way because of all those wingless flies having a literal orgy under its skin.
For that to happen to a human being? That's fucking horrifying.
Boy are you're butthurt from having had to go off your comfort zone of dogma in that discussion and into actual science, and having your ass handed to you in the process.
I guess I'll write that as a good deed of the day.
Fun part I recently ran into with Huawei phone that friend was using. You can't install VLC on them any more through play store. You have to get APK package from elsewhere.
Apparently, Huawei has some out of spec handling of battery management that interferes with many apps, and VLC folks just had enough. So keep that in mind if you want to get one:
Is that why her claim pissed off Indians so much that several of them went on TV to denounce her attempt to pretend she's not one of the whitest people on the planet?
I personally liked his actions in the end, where he had a ship going in search of all the old WW2 wrecks in the Pacific. So much history that he found, ranging from major ships like IJN Musashi, HMS Hood's bell and both Fuso class battleships to smaller unique ships like Shimakaze. Though the crowning achievement was probably when they found the Lady Lex herself earlier this year.
I'm going to guess that you're thinking "oh he probably doesn't know that global warming is pushing the belt of biological viability of malaria-carrying insects north, and I'm going to pretend to be a wise-ass about it".
Now go read what we're actually talking about, and comprehend why you're wrong in both yours assumption about me, and your assumption about the increase in malaria deaths due to things discussed here. The only thing that is making malaria issues worse is the progression of the strains immune to drugs due to people not taking full doses as necessary in East and South Asia.
Mosquito eradication is one of the primary limiters of spread of both those types of malaria, and the types that are treatable.
Malaria isn't the only disease we attempt to eradicate insect populations for.
As for "collapse of the biosphere", there were more mosquitoes in Lapland last year than there are people on the planet. And that's the northernmost mosquitoes, who are under the heaviest evolutionary pressure from global warming, and a fairly small chunk of the biosphere.
Not to even mention the "moose flies" or whatever that particular fly that literally goes under the moose's skin to breed called in English. You should ask the moose if they think we should eradicate those. They are so painful, they literally drive those majestic beasts insane.
This shows the severe disconnect from reality present in nature in many of the green activists.
1. Humans vs nature dichotomy is the norm. Humans as part of nature never even enter the thought. Something only someone utterly disconnected from nature, only someone who lives in modern city could think. 2. "West is uniquely anti-nature and pro-human". Reality is, it's the most anti-human and pro-nature. You need not look beyond how shamelessly people outside West dump their waste, or where the plastic garbage filling the oceans comes from to see that "think of the nature before yourself" attitude is utterly absent outside the West beyond a few village idiot types. 3. Strange empathy towards other species that assumes that other species can be more valuable than their own. Not a single creature on this entire planet follows this philosophy in their actions. Nor does overwhelming majority of people, luckily, as this attitude is self-exterminationist. This mindset is almost uniquely locked to the certain parts of modern Green movement, which can commonly be described as "medieval nature worship" - worship of idealized view of nature as something beautiful, that human tarnish. Without ever realising that nature in reality is the bloodiest, most brutal, most amoral and unethical state of being, by definition.
This mode of thinking iss utterly absent outside West, and represents a tiny and vocal minority among even the Green movement itself. It's unfortunate that it's increasingly taking over the movement, and its various forms ranging from deranged animal activists from PETA to vegan extremists violently attacking people eating meat dishes in restaurants are increasingly taking control over the movement that used to be quite close to nature and very much pro-"humans as a part of nature" narrative rather than "humans against nature" one that is advanced here.
And on your last point, which I failed to edit into my original point. Why does something that works well for specific task need updates? I've used same version of winamp for something close to a half a decade if not longer. It does everything I need it to do. What is the benefit of getting "updates"?
I'll just state that if you take even a cursory look at human machine interface and human physiological limitations literature, you'll understand that reality is diametric opposite of this statement. We as biological creatures are heavily optimized in how our attention is directed and how much brain capacity is allotted to the task with the rest going to cripplingly slow and inefficient abstraction, and exceeding these limitations even by a little bit will slow down the brain's processing speed by thousands of times.
It's a very heavy price to pay for "more powerful".
A good and very simple example of this human limitation is multiplication tables. Time yourself how long it take you do the math on 4*4, 8*8, 12*12, 16*16 etc. There is almost no perceptible speed differential as long as we stay within optimized areas. The speed crashes by hundreds of times slower once you exit this area and go into abstraction.
This just as an example of what we're talking about on very basic level, and for learned things. When you go into hard coded biological aspects, like the way attention is directed within cone of vision, speed differential commonly has three meaningful zeroes at the tail.
And that's what makes winamp great. Very little in terms of unnecessary features on install, but almost everything you need is available as add-on. It's perfect for a power user who understands the scope of his needs.
Fubar, not so much. Too much that comes with it. For most users (and power users), it's just too powerful. I have it on this machine for example, but use it maybe once every two years when I need something that winamp can't do with my standard add-on suite. Winamp is used daily, because it fits my workflow very well.
The main reason is likely efforts to end the current deadliest illness that plagues humanity: malaria. We actively destroy insect breeding grounds to contain it, because malaria kills more people on the planet than any other illness on a yearly basis.
Bonus points from countless other illnesses also spread by insects that are not as prevalent as malaria, but tend to also be debilitating and often lethal.
The real question here is: are insects so important as to lose millions every year to illnesses they spread, and even more survive but be crippled for life with consequences?
Yes. It has tools that go well beyond "just play my audio and provide basic control features for it in a lightweight player". Have you ever actually used it? It's really great when you need to do things that go beyond playback.
More progress in two years than previous fifty. This claim shows the depth of your intellectual dishonesty. "He didn't fix the problem that was considered at worst ever stage two years ago, and impossible to solve in two years, he only made more progress than anyone before him".
>- almost-nuclear Iran is about to step on the gas pedal on that goal, now that Trump canceled the deal we had
Hasn't even begun focusing on it yet. The "deal we had" was essentially a deal that allowed Iran to restore the damage previous sanctions regime did to its economy and store up for the final nuclear sprint. It was almost as dumb as Paris agreement that motivated China to build up coal power en masse ASAP so they could get the highest possible line from which to start enacting eventual reductions. Which they are currently doing to the shock of no one but the green lobby.
>- Russia dominating/threatening its neighbors, and we're all chummy with them
In other news, pigs fly and US hasn't enacted sanctions that are tougher than were in place during Cold War in many areas. Speaking of which, sanctions are so well targeted, that they're also serving US interests on arms markets.
>- US health care system still screwed up, getting worse all the time -- and no solution in sight
Not a presidential matter in the first place, but he had a go at it. Initial attempt to fix it failed because folks you like got bent out of shape with "he's a secret nazi" at the time. When something is broken, and large portion of people think it should stay broken, you must let it break fully to be able to enact meaningful change. He clearly has started the process through by defunding the parts of the system that are failing, and letting them fail on their own merits.
>- no wall
Yet the trade deal has been renegotiated, and additional benefits to US from that alone would finance it. Migration enforcement is also massively up in spite of "abolish ICE" narrative pushed hard by his opponents. All that is needed is less of "we'll tear this country down if it means it will cause Trump to flinch" attitudes among people like yourself.
Additional bonus points for wall on Mexico's southern border actually happening, which should cut off a large amount of migration, and largely limit it to Mexicans.
>- and let's not forget Puerto Rico
Because essentially everyone has, as repairs progress slowly, elevating people above "minimum acceptable levels" in spite of massive local corruption deterring actions by federal government. See, there's this thing called "relevance". When you operate at high level as US President should, actions on relevant stages speak much louder than words. For example:
1. Economy that was "impossible" according to his predecessor. Employment figures that propaganda machine has been struggling to explain away as bad for over half of his tenure at this point, and failing because they're just running out of even hypothetical, utterly unbelievable excuses. Believable ones have been exhausted long ago. 2. Successful renegotiation of NAFTA to benefit of US. Also supposedly "impossible" by his predecessors and detractors. 3. Actually getting allies in Europe thinking about defence and military, rather than brushing it under a rug under massive pressure from anti-military lobby in relevant countries. Germans actually started to actively work on getting their decayed and hollowed out military back into working order, which was considered impossible for last two decades at the least. 4. You already mentioned things like DPRK, even if you tried to desperately re-frame as negatives.
Just to name a few actually big things that are purview of office of US president, rather than "but my legislative branch issues".
Slashdot Mirror
I have 8.1. barebones android phone (nokia) and it has no email client other than gmail that I could find when I got it. The only installed browser was chrome.
Other end I forgot to mention is God complex, falsely believing that humanity has a messianic role to play, rather than being part of their environment.
Literally, topic. I don't like chrome on android because it has no add-ons that I feel are necessary for browsing. It would also be nice to be able to remove gmail for an actually decent POP3/IMAP email client. Pretty much the only things I use from google are maps and play store, and I'd love for play store de facto monopoly to go away. And as for maps, here maps are on par or better than google's around here.
It wouldn't hurt if they also removed all the tracking, but I don't dare even dream about that. Tracking people is google's core business, and that thing will be taken out of their cold, dead hands only.
Fuck my life. I remember seeing one moose that was felled by hunters where they literally had to skin it in a certain way because of all those wingless flies having a literal orgy under its skin.
For that to happen to a human being? That's fucking horrifying.
Gotta say, I'm loving all the attention. You're actually arguing about me with someone else. Mom, I'm famous.
You're still butthurt because you don't understand science I see. Don't worry about it.
Also, you're my first hater that actually stuck around on slashdot. Thanks!
You forgot to mention that I'm also a nazi, a jew, a Trump supporter and I eat babies and rape dogs.
Or the other way around. I can't remember what you anti-science crazies use as slurs nowadays.
Boy are you're butthurt from having had to go off your comfort zone of dogma in that discussion and into actual science, and having your ass handed to you in the process.
I guess I'll write that as a good deed of the day.
Fun part I recently ran into with Huawei phone that friend was using. You can't install VLC on them any more through play store. You have to get APK package from elsewhere.
Apparently, Huawei has some out of spec handling of battery management that interferes with many apps, and VLC folks just had enough. So keep that in mind if you want to get one:
https://www.androidcentral.com...
Is that why her claim pissed off Indians so much that several of them went on TV to denounce her attempt to pretend she's not one of the whitest people on the planet?
I personally liked his actions in the end, where he had a ship going in search of all the old WW2 wrecks in the Pacific. So much history that he found, ranging from major ships like IJN Musashi, HMS Hood's bell and both Fuso class battleships to smaller unique ships like Shimakaze. Though the crowning achievement was probably when they found the Lady Lex herself earlier this year.
My last one was this September. It was actually nice this year, as summer was dry. Not many of them in Lapland.
Previous summer though, more mosquitoes in Lapland than people on the planet.
Thank you for successfully reinforcing my point above. I couldn't have done it better myself.
I'm going to guess that you're thinking "oh he probably doesn't know that global warming is pushing the belt of biological viability of malaria-carrying insects north, and I'm going to pretend to be a wise-ass about it".
Now go read what we're actually talking about, and comprehend why you're wrong in both yours assumption about me, and your assumption about the increase in malaria deaths due to things discussed here. The only thing that is making malaria issues worse is the progression of the strains immune to drugs due to people not taking full doses as necessary in East and South Asia.
Mosquito eradication is one of the primary limiters of spread of both those types of malaria, and the types that are treatable.
Malaria isn't the only disease we attempt to eradicate insect populations for.
As for "collapse of the biosphere", there were more mosquitoes in Lapland last year than there are people on the planet. And that's the northernmost mosquitoes, who are under the heaviest evolutionary pressure from global warming, and a fairly small chunk of the biosphere.
Not to even mention the "moose flies" or whatever that particular fly that literally goes under the moose's skin to breed called in English. You should ask the moose if they think we should eradicate those. They are so painful, they literally drive those majestic beasts insane.
But we're not removing it. Not even the colourful language of the report in question tries to make such a hyperbolic claim.
This shows the severe disconnect from reality present in nature in many of the green activists.
1. Humans vs nature dichotomy is the norm. Humans as part of nature never even enter the thought. Something only someone utterly disconnected from nature, only someone who lives in modern city could think.
2. "West is uniquely anti-nature and pro-human". Reality is, it's the most anti-human and pro-nature. You need not look beyond how shamelessly people outside West dump their waste, or where the plastic garbage filling the oceans comes from to see that "think of the nature before yourself" attitude is utterly absent outside the West beyond a few village idiot types.
3. Strange empathy towards other species that assumes that other species can be more valuable than their own. Not a single creature on this entire planet follows this philosophy in their actions. Nor does overwhelming majority of people, luckily, as this attitude is self-exterminationist. This mindset is almost uniquely locked to the certain parts of modern Green movement, which can commonly be described as "medieval nature worship" - worship of idealized view of nature as something beautiful, that human tarnish. Without ever realising that nature in reality is the bloodiest, most brutal, most amoral and unethical state of being, by definition.
This mode of thinking iss utterly absent outside West, and represents a tiny and vocal minority among even the Green movement itself. It's unfortunate that it's increasingly taking over the movement, and its various forms ranging from deranged animal activists from PETA to vegan extremists violently attacking people eating meat dishes in restaurants are increasingly taking control over the movement that used to be quite close to nature and very much pro-"humans as a part of nature" narrative rather than "humans against nature" one that is advanced here.
And on your last point, which I failed to edit into my original point. Why does something that works well for specific task need updates? I've used same version of winamp for something close to a half a decade if not longer. It does everything I need it to do. What is the benefit of getting "updates"?
>There's no such thing as "too powerful".
I'll just state that if you take even a cursory look at human machine interface and human physiological limitations literature, you'll understand that reality is diametric opposite of this statement. We as biological creatures are heavily optimized in how our attention is directed and how much brain capacity is allotted to the task with the rest going to cripplingly slow and inefficient abstraction, and exceeding these limitations even by a little bit will slow down the brain's processing speed by thousands of times.
It's a very heavy price to pay for "more powerful".
A good and very simple example of this human limitation is multiplication tables. Time yourself how long it take you do the math on 4*4, 8*8, 12*12, 16*16 etc. There is almost no perceptible speed differential as long as we stay within optimized areas. The speed crashes by hundreds of times slower once you exit this area and go into abstraction.
This just as an example of what we're talking about on very basic level, and for learned things. When you go into hard coded biological aspects, like the way attention is directed within cone of vision, speed differential commonly has three meaningful zeroes at the tail.
And that's what makes winamp great. Very little in terms of unnecessary features on install, but almost everything you need is available as add-on. It's perfect for a power user who understands the scope of his needs.
Fubar, not so much. Too much that comes with it. For most users (and power users), it's just too powerful. I have it on this machine for example, but use it maybe once every two years when I need something that winamp can't do with my standard add-on suite. Winamp is used daily, because it fits my workflow very well.
No, but insects that operate in hotter conditions are more numerous than those that can operate in colder ones.
This is well demonstrated in spread of malaria-bearing insects northwards as global warming progresses.
The main reason is likely efforts to end the current deadliest illness that plagues humanity: malaria. We actively destroy insect breeding grounds to contain it, because malaria kills more people on the planet than any other illness on a yearly basis.
Bonus points from countless other illnesses also spread by insects that are not as prevalent as malaria, but tend to also be debilitating and often lethal.
The real question here is: are insects so important as to lose millions every year to illnesses they spread, and even more survive but be crippled for life with consequences?
Great news. Really great news.
Signed: Malaria doctors. Other doctors dealing with insect-transmitted illnesses which are prevalent in tropics.
Yes. It has tools that go well beyond "just play my audio and provide basic control features for it in a lightweight player". Have you ever actually used it? It's really great when you need to do things that go beyond playback.
- nuclear N. Korea is still nuclear
More progress in two years than previous fifty. This claim shows the depth of your intellectual dishonesty. "He didn't fix the problem that was considered at worst ever stage two years ago, and impossible to solve in two years, he only made more progress than anyone before him".
>- almost-nuclear Iran is about to step on the gas pedal on that goal, now that Trump canceled the deal we had
Hasn't even begun focusing on it yet. The "deal we had" was essentially a deal that allowed Iran to restore the damage previous sanctions regime did to its economy and store up for the final nuclear sprint. It was almost as dumb as Paris agreement that motivated China to build up coal power en masse ASAP so they could get the highest possible line from which to start enacting eventual reductions. Which they are currently doing to the shock of no one but the green lobby.
>- Russia dominating/threatening its neighbors, and we're all chummy with them
In other news, pigs fly and US hasn't enacted sanctions that are tougher than were in place during Cold War in many areas. Speaking of which, sanctions are so well targeted, that they're also serving US interests on arms markets.
>- US health care system still screwed up, getting worse all the time -- and no solution in sight
Not a presidential matter in the first place, but he had a go at it. Initial attempt to fix it failed because folks you like got bent out of shape with "he's a secret nazi" at the time. When something is broken, and large portion of people think it should stay broken, you must let it break fully to be able to enact meaningful change. He clearly has started the process through by defunding the parts of the system that are failing, and letting them fail on their own merits.
>- no wall
Yet the trade deal has been renegotiated, and additional benefits to US from that alone would finance it. Migration enforcement is also massively up in spite of "abolish ICE" narrative pushed hard by his opponents. All that is needed is less of "we'll tear this country down if it means it will cause Trump to flinch" attitudes among people like yourself.
Additional bonus points for wall on Mexico's southern border actually happening, which should cut off a large amount of migration, and largely limit it to Mexicans.
>- and let's not forget Puerto Rico
Because essentially everyone has, as repairs progress slowly, elevating people above "minimum acceptable levels" in spite of massive local corruption deterring actions by federal government. See, there's this thing called "relevance". When you operate at high level as US President should, actions on relevant stages speak much louder than words. For example:
1. Economy that was "impossible" according to his predecessor. Employment figures that propaganda machine has been struggling to explain away as bad for over half of his tenure at this point, and failing because they're just running out of even hypothetical, utterly unbelievable excuses. Believable ones have been exhausted long ago.
2. Successful renegotiation of NAFTA to benefit of US. Also supposedly "impossible" by his predecessors and detractors.
3. Actually getting allies in Europe thinking about defence and military, rather than brushing it under a rug under massive pressure from anti-military lobby in relevant countries. Germans actually started to actively work on getting their decayed and hollowed out military back into working order, which was considered impossible for last two decades at the least.
4. You already mentioned things like DPRK, even if you tried to desperately re-frame as negatives.
Just to name a few actually big things that are purview of office of US president, rather than "but my legislative branch issues".