Precisely. Complete factory service and troubleshooting manuals would fit fine on a USB key, but the factory hoard them and make them inconvenient and expensive to obtain.
Most mechanics can play swaptronics and fix the vehicle, but turds like Cadillac tend to need dealer intervention.
"Mostly because the GUIs have never advanced beyond mediocrity."
Refinement is boring, change is entertaining, so no surprise that GUIs are more about eye candy than user friendliness. I understand users are annoying, but they won't adopt systems which annoy THEM.
"So how do you square your little fairy tale against your drastically higher levels of gun crime, and drastically higher murder rates per head of population? Or do you prefer to keep things like "facts" out of your stories preferring to keep them purely fictional?"
Crime in the US is mostly a racial problem. Most of the murders etc are trash taking out trash. I live in a good, safe WHITE neighborhood which is good and safe BECAUSE it's White. That racial reality is inescapable.
I can't repatriate the people who were kidnapped hundreds of years ago, but I can defend myself against them and avoid them since the US has ample space for relocation.
We need MORE cyber attacks to coerce immunity. Ideally, they would be destructive.
People will not implement security unless and until they are inconvenienced more by the attack than by security measures.
We need malware and attacks that break shit.
There is a reason humans can eat all sorts of vile stuff and survive in primitive conditions (like South Carolina). It's because we built immunity through natural selection.
That's why the police should use enough force to inflict physical damage on the enemy even if they can't reel them in. Massive use of riot control agents and plastic bullets would be a good start.
"America still managed to suffer far worse riots than the UK has."
ONLY in DISARMED areas. There are two Americas, reasonable as the US is vastly larger than the UK. There is a generally peaceful part, and there is the violent part you read about in the news. The culture and demographics of these areas differ. Many of the lowest-crime areas of the US are heavily armed.
The reason the LA riots weren't replicated in the Southern US is we would have cut the rioters to ribbons. The "goblins" (to use a fine Jeff Cooper phrase) tend to prey on each other instead. We have the right to kill in self-defense. We use it. You don't. When a thug breaks into a home in the US, their death at the hands of a homeowner is usually met with approval as it should be.
"Criminals will find weapons regardless, but much better that the chavs are busy with knives against which there is at least some ability to defend or run from or at worst passing round the odd, knackered old fire arm with limited ammunition than all armed up with well maintained fully automatic weapons, and as much ammunition as they'd ever want to buy."
You are confused about the real situation. The US "chav" equivalent are poorly armed, and good citizens much better equipped. The riotous sort sell their weapons for drugs or can't afford them in the first place. The good citizens often have a military background and plan accordingly.
Trash, be they "chavs" or (insert epithet I'd get a troll mod for using) are merely a mob of beasts. In cases where the general public approve, massive force can be used against such people. We should remember that mobs can be destroyed by force, and get over the idea that mobs whose goal is mindless attack on the rest of us deserve mercy. What they deserve is ball ammo in the face.
The US violence problem is largely a consequence of the behavior of a particular demographic. The white areas with high firearm ownership are normally very peaceful. As the UK demographics become Third World demographics you will see more violence there.
Kennesaw is also noted for discouraging criminal demographics. I'll accept racism in trade for personal security any day, because my security is more important than Political Correctness. I don't care who thinks that's "wrong", because none of those people will ever do anything to protect my safety.
They aren't "fighting the power", they are just breaking shit. Looting and burning the property of those you know are innocent isn't protest.
The Polish labor unions didn't torch their neighbors homes and stores! They stood WITH their neighbors at great risk to themselves.
I know many Slashdotters desperately want to see deep meaning in riots, but this is obviously more like sports hooliganism than protest. The rioters know most of them will get away with it, and they are having a grand old time.
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Good luck getting the Tooth Fairy to supply the bandwidth to support the Cloud, even with Santa Claus and Bugs Bunny laying extra fiber.
It would need at least ONE distro to have a sponsor who gave a fuck about desktop penetration and good user interface design.
The different distros aren't a problem, the lack of ONE desktop distro of high stability and quality is the problem.
Other distros do not detract from each other.
Ubuntu could choose to pull LOTD off if they genuinely focused on a standard UI and stuck with it.
The junk mail spammers PAY to subsidize your mail service and their patronage is valuable. Spammers just shit in your inbox.
Precisely. Complete factory service and troubleshooting manuals would fit fine on a USB key, but the factory hoard them and make them inconvenient and expensive to obtain.
Most mechanics can play swaptronics and fix the vehicle, but turds like Cadillac tend to need dealer intervention.
"Without oil we have no modern civilization."
Or Apple computers.
No shit. Most drones and aircraft run on JP-8 jet fuel, which is also a substitute for diesel.
There need be no "default" across ALL distros. Just point the newbs at whatever Ubuntu is running at the time and call that good.
"Mostly because the GUIs have never advanced beyond mediocrity."
Refinement is boring, change is entertaining, so no surprise that GUIs are more about eye candy than user friendliness. I understand users are annoying, but they won't adopt systems which annoy THEM.
"so long as they can get their almost-thin-clients booted into gmail as cheaply as possible..."
Something like the USAF portable lightweight security distro is already fine for that.
I prefer Gmail WITH Thunderbird. I can use Thunderbird Portable and Thunderbird installs sync'ed to my webmail accounts.
I'm on a fecal Time-Warner connection, and I prefer the Thunderbird interface to Gmail. I can work offline using Thunderbird. Win/win.
"Once people shift to using cloud-based software" ....they will get bitch-slapped by its limitations.
The article is simply designed to get page hits. That is all.
The death of rioters is completely desirable. Where rioters know they will be shot, for example the South, they don't riot.
Bingo. White areas tend to be safe areas. When White areas flood, the residents don't behave like New Orleans Africans.
Reality isn't often Politically Correct. I have no problem with that.
"So how do you square your little fairy tale against your drastically higher levels of gun crime, and drastically higher murder rates per head of population? Or do you prefer to keep things like "facts" out of your stories preferring to keep them purely fictional?"
Crime in the US is mostly a racial problem. Most of the murders etc are trash taking out trash. I live in a good, safe WHITE neighborhood which is good and safe BECAUSE it's White. That racial reality is inescapable.
I can't repatriate the people who were kidnapped hundreds of years ago, but I can defend myself against them and avoid them since the US has ample space for relocation.
We need MORE cyber attacks to coerce immunity. Ideally, they would be destructive.
People will not implement security unless and until they are inconvenienced more by the attack than by security measures.
We need malware and attacks that break shit.
There is a reason humans can eat all sorts of vile stuff and survive in primitive conditions (like South Carolina). It's because we built immunity through natural selection.
We can produce rare earths domestically. In a pinch pollution standards could be waived or adjusted so this can be done economically.
That's why the police should use enough force to inflict physical damage on the enemy even if they can't reel them in. Massive use of riot control agents and plastic bullets would be a good start.
Take the fight to the enemy.
"America still managed to suffer far worse riots than the UK has."
ONLY in DISARMED areas. There are two Americas, reasonable as the US is vastly larger than the UK. There is a generally peaceful part, and there is the violent part you read about in the news. The culture and demographics of these areas differ. Many of the lowest-crime areas of the US are heavily armed.
The reason the LA riots weren't replicated in the Southern US is we would have cut the rioters to ribbons. The "goblins" (to use a fine Jeff Cooper phrase) tend to prey on each other instead. We have the right to kill in self-defense. We use it. You don't. When a thug breaks into a home in the US, their death at the hands of a homeowner is usually met with approval as it should be.
"Criminals will find weapons regardless, but much better that the chavs are busy with knives against which there is at least some ability to defend or run from or at worst passing round the odd, knackered old fire arm with limited ammunition than all armed up with well maintained fully automatic weapons, and as much ammunition as they'd ever want to buy."
You are confused about the real situation.
The US "chav" equivalent are poorly armed, and good citizens much better equipped. The riotous sort sell their weapons for drugs or can't afford them in the first place. The good citizens often have a military background and plan accordingly.
Trash, be they "chavs" or (insert epithet I'd get a troll mod for using) are merely a mob of beasts. In cases where the general public approve, massive force can be used against such people. We should remember that mobs can be destroyed by force, and get over the idea that mobs whose goal is mindless attack on the rest of us deserve mercy. What they deserve is ball ammo in the face.
This is Slashdot, where your explanation is not acceptable, because only government is capable of evil.
"Get those fucking thugs off the streets. Niggers, spics, Republicans and faggots."
I'm a Latino Mulatto Log Cabin Republican, you insensitive clod!
Your examples are ALL political and deliberately selected to be such.
Are you implying all riot is political? In that case, say so!
Whose side are you on? It's OK to say "fight the powah, smash everything" but be honest about it.
The US violence problem is largely a consequence of the behavior of a particular demographic. The white areas with high firearm ownership are normally very peaceful. As the UK demographics become Third World demographics you will see more violence there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennesaw,_Georgia
Kennesaw is also noted for discouraging criminal demographics. I'll accept racism in trade for personal security any day, because my security is more important than Political Correctness. I don't care who thinks that's "wrong", because none of those people will ever do anything to protect my safety.
Rioters are choosing to pose a mortal threat to innocent people therefore shooting them is self-defense/defense of others.
The innocent have an inalienable right to defend themselves. There is no self-defense that matters without the right to uses deadly force.
They aren't "fighting the power", they are just breaking shit. Looting and burning the property of those you know are innocent isn't protest.
The Polish labor unions didn't torch their neighbors homes and stores! They stood WITH their neighbors at great risk to themselves.
I know many Slashdotters desperately want to see deep meaning in riots, but this is obviously more like sports hooliganism than protest.
The rioters know most of them will get away with it, and they are having a grand old time.