US corporatocratic government cannot be expected to be fiscally responsible. It's major mission is globalism to which end it engages in (very expensive) perpetual war. The EU have given up militaristic imperialism and saved vast amounts of treasure thereby. US "leaders" are all utterly corrupt puppets of the rich who differentiate based on social issues come election time. Americans hate taxes because they increase but we don't benefit from the increase. Since I will not obtain any good from increases I prefer to fight to limit taxes. Either way they'll be misused so "less is better". The US isn't "doomed" but it can't become a better place so the best one may do is dodge as much government bullshit as practical.
Theaters were cool back decades ago when there was no alternative, but they offer nothing of value now and the entire experience is an expensive, time-consuming hassle.
Offer the library contents to Google if Google will pay the freight. Truck freight is reasonable and a moving van will hold thousands of pounds of books. Problem solved without loss of access.
Linux desktops have been taken over by artistic "designers" instead of people who want to build tools for getting actual work done.
As with Windows, people looking to put their stamp on a product confuse change with progress. Printed books don't constantly change format, but for some reason desktop environments are relentlessly fucked with by designers for the sake of play.
Since bleeding edge distros no longer offer anything useful, I ignore them and leave them to the ricers.
"Isn't that like saying a pilot is distracted by having his HUD turned on?"
NO, it obviously is not. WTF, over?
HUD are designed to make aircraft operation SAFER by maintaining pilot situational awareness. They put information relevant to operating the aircraft in his field of vision so he doesn't have to scan down/sideways as often to read MFDs and instruments.
Now what tech-illiterates modded that post up? That's a disgraceful display of cluelessness.
See the HUD example. Read what the display depicts:
We have thousands of years to play in space, and because robotic development cycles can be far more rapid than meat tourist conveyance systems we could get more actual "exploration" done. Humans require barriers between them and everything in "space", and must have efficient robotic systems to exploit resources on other planets. We also need robots on earth with the eventual goal of ending most human manual labor. The loss of Challenger was a blow to a space program focused on sending meat. Just as we use UAVs to remote-man the dull and dangerous task of war, so we can remotely man space exploration for a very long time until the transport and other systems are far more reliable. Pure win, no downside. The childish Cold War space tourism race is over. If Challenger had been full of robots instead of humans, the explosion would have merely been expensive entertainment.
Rather than pit them against citizens under conditions where their employers can exploit them then throw them back to Bumphuqistan, have a reasonable (five years max) path to becoming Americans instead. Maintaining the "brain drain" is greatly in favor of the US economy. Training our competition then sending them back is pants-on-head retarded.
It's possible to get knowledgeable enough to fact-check the basics easily, but the mob never want to learn about tech in the first place. This isn't new.
Slashdot wasn't profitable enough as a tech site which is why it's now 4chan in white-and-green.
"The manufacturers business models aren't aligned with Microsoft's objectives."
Good. We have baby steps such as the Steam box. There is no reason as office suites mature that PC makers can't do the same thing but work together so they use compatible distros.
There is nothing Windows does as an OS better than Linux except run Windows programs. There are more Windows programs in certain categories because Windows is ubiquitous. As MSFT tries to lock down their market and fuck the manufacturers, those manufacturers can choose to use Linux at vastly lower licensing costs than Windows.
LOTD IMO will be the last bastion Linux storms, after conquering the rest.
I can afford steak but I LIKE collards (cue Homer Simpsonesque reverie), rice and beans and so do my friends prosperous or poor.
Eating more of same and less shit helped me drop 50lbs and feel better. I also have friends on food stamps. They can afford to eat well but they spend the same money on garbage and are often morbidly obese.
Cost for cost you can feed the same number of people on both items. They would be better off eating less chicken than more snack cakes. Been there, done both, dropped 50lbs and my grocery bill went DOWN when I renounced junk food. Soda isn't a substitute for milk because WATER is the way to stay hydrated, and I don't mean bottled water either. Drink less milk and don't use soda to stay hydrated as many people do. Walmart will happily sell you decent food if you want that. Americans in recent decades have become habituated to overeating "pleasure food" which is bad for them. Poor folks decades ago ate differently and were less obese. "Soul food" is much healthier than the shit people are habituated to today. There is still a market for rice, collard greens, and so forth (in the South at least) and not just among the poor. That stuff tastes good. I'm not poor and enjoy it. Some of my buds are poor and enjoy it too. They weren't raised on junk food.
They knew better than to have five kids, but they didn't care. I'm sitting in front of my inexpensive computer in my (paid for) house because I'm not fucking stupid. I've worked with folks from poor and prosperous backgrounds, and the successful sort know not to breed what you can't feed. Children are a choice, and while I'm actually fine with feeding the poor as an alternative to spending more on them, let's never pretend that stupid people deserve respect. We pay for these burdensome losers to buy political peace. It's cheaper than prison.
There are many ways to make money to reasons don't exist to pursue tech unless you are there purely for the tech and don't give a shit about routing around some of the social defectives in it. Men are conditioned for that sort of thing and most women are not.
It's not nice to point that out but it's a standing joke for good reason.
Medical fields will have strong growth for a lifetime and most cannot be outsourced. A better question then why there are fewer women in tech is why anyone is in it. Some folks can make very good money but most are expendable drones.
Compare and contrast with Ford and their defective cruise control switches which WERE their fault and to which design they clung to for many years despite losing many vehicles to fire.
Good for Tesla. This response is to their credit. A 50-amp outlet is sufficient to run high-draw items such as welders, let alone a car charger, but bad shit can happen if they aren't done properly. Tesla are going over the top to protect their customers from the consequence of improper wiring by third parties.
If you give MSFT money why would you not effortlessly download a clean W7.iso and install using that and Daz loader?
They get paid for an operating systems so should not your conscience be clear?
Load Suse on it (noticed your nick) then run W7 in a VM for even more convenience. Reverting to a snapshot beats bare metal recovery or other troubleshooting any day.
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US corporatocratic government cannot be expected to be fiscally responsible. It's major mission is globalism to which end it engages in (very expensive) perpetual war. The EU have given up militaristic imperialism and saved vast amounts of treasure thereby.
US "leaders" are all utterly corrupt puppets of the rich who differentiate based on social issues come election time.
Americans hate taxes because they increase but we don't benefit from the increase. Since I will not obtain any good from increases I prefer to fight to limit taxes. Either way they'll be misused so "less is better".
The US isn't "doomed" but it can't become a better place so the best one may do is dodge as much government bullshit as practical.
Psycho much?
If your stream of consciousness (I'll use the term loosely) resembles your sentence structure you are in dire need of suicide.
Theaters were cool back decades ago when there was no alternative, but they offer nothing of value now and the entire experience is an expensive, time-consuming hassle.
Offer the library contents to Google if Google will pay the freight. Truck freight is reasonable and a moving van will hold thousands of pounds of books. Problem solved without loss of access.
"HOAs and property management companies are the scum of the earth"
The people who CHOOSE to empower them get what they CONTRACTED for. They traded freedom for perceived neighborhood "security".
Because it gets Dicedot page hits, you big silly!
Ah, but you must allow the State to control how you use your own body to protect you from making Bad Choices!
Freedom is not a Victimless Crime. :-)
"Who are you and what have you done with APK?"
127.0.0.1 APK
Works for me.
"The fact that people have to worry about their karma and being modded down"
Worry about things of no value? Wake me when Dicedot "karma" will buy me something.
I give no fuck about my karma and anyone modding me down is welcome to die in a fire. :-)
Linux desktops have been taken over by artistic "designers" instead of people who want to build tools for getting actual work done.
As with Windows, people looking to put their stamp on a product confuse change with progress. Printed books don't constantly change format, but for some reason desktop environments are relentlessly fucked with by designers for the sake of play.
Since bleeding edge distros no longer offer anything useful, I ignore them and leave them to the ricers.
"Isn't that like saying a pilot is distracted by having his HUD turned on?"
NO, it obviously is not. WTF, over?
HUD are designed to make aircraft operation SAFER by maintaining pilot situational awareness. They put information relevant to operating the aircraft in his field of vision so he doesn't have to scan down/sideways as often to read MFDs and instruments.
Now what tech-illiterates modded that post up? That's a disgraceful display of cluelessness.
See the HUD example. Read what the display depicts:
http://falcon4.wikidot.com/avionics:hud
Watch the HUD video to see why this display is important especially when under G's:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHx-OWdHqf8
Note the absence of Tweets, email, and office-related correspondence.
We have thousands of years to play in space, and because robotic development cycles can be far more rapid than meat tourist conveyance systems we could get more actual "exploration" done. Humans require barriers between them and everything in "space", and must have efficient robotic systems to exploit resources on other planets. We also need robots on earth with the eventual goal of ending most human manual labor.
The loss of Challenger was a blow to a space program focused on sending meat. Just as we use UAVs to remote-man the dull and dangerous task of war, so we can remotely man space exploration for a very long time until the transport and other systems are far more reliable.
Pure win, no downside. The childish Cold War space tourism race is over. If Challenger had been full of robots instead of humans, the explosion would have merely been expensive entertainment.
Rather than pit them against citizens under conditions where their employers can exploit them then throw them back to Bumphuqistan, have a reasonable (five years max) path to becoming Americans instead. Maintaining the "brain drain" is greatly in favor of the US economy. Training our competition then sending them back is pants-on-head retarded.
Business is war, business is inherently amoral (not moral or immoral), and "spin" to sell what nations do for advantage is perfectly logical.
It's possible to get knowledgeable enough to fact-check the basics easily, but the mob never want to learn about tech in the first place. This isn't new.
Slashdot wasn't profitable enough as a tech site which is why it's now 4chan in white-and-green.
Many of the folks who are shot in the US are oxygen wasters and no loss. Society isn't necessarily better off if everyone lives to a ripe old age.
"The manufacturers business models aren't aligned with Microsoft's objectives."
Good. We have baby steps such as the Steam box. There is no reason as office suites mature that PC makers can't do the same thing but work together so they use compatible distros.
There is nothing Windows does as an OS better than Linux except run Windows programs. There are more Windows programs in certain categories because Windows is ubiquitous. As MSFT tries to lock down their market and fuck the manufacturers, those manufacturers can choose to use Linux at vastly lower licensing costs than Windows.
LOTD IMO will be the last bastion Linux storms, after conquering the rest.
I can afford steak but I LIKE collards (cue Homer Simpsonesque reverie), rice and beans and so do my friends prosperous or poor.
Eating more of same and less shit helped me drop 50lbs and feel better. I also have friends on food stamps. They can afford to eat well but they spend the same money on garbage and are often morbidly obese.
Cost for cost you can feed the same number of people on both items. They would be better off eating less chicken than more snack cakes.
Been there, done both, dropped 50lbs and my grocery bill went DOWN when I renounced junk food. Soda isn't a substitute for milk because WATER is the way to stay hydrated, and I don't mean bottled water either. Drink less milk and don't use soda to stay hydrated as many people do.
Walmart will happily sell you decent food if you want that. Americans in recent decades have become habituated to overeating "pleasure food" which is bad for them. Poor folks decades ago ate differently and were less obese. "Soul food" is much healthier than the shit people are habituated to today. There is still a market for rice, collard greens, and so forth (in the South at least) and not just among the poor. That stuff tastes good. I'm not poor and enjoy it. Some of my buds are poor and enjoy it too. They weren't raised on junk food.
They knew better than to have five kids, but they didn't care.
I'm sitting in front of my inexpensive computer in my (paid for) house because I'm not fucking stupid. I've worked with folks from poor and prosperous backgrounds, and the successful sort know not to breed what you can't feed.
Children are a choice, and while I'm actually fine with feeding the poor as an alternative to spending more on them, let's never pretend that stupid people deserve respect. We pay for these burdensome losers to buy political peace. It's cheaper than prison.
There are many ways to make money to reasons don't exist to pursue tech unless you are there purely for the tech and don't give a shit about routing around some of the social defectives in it. Men are conditioned for that sort of thing and most women are not.
It's not nice to point that out but it's a standing joke for good reason.
Medical fields will have strong growth for a lifetime and most cannot be outsourced. A better question then why there are fewer women in tech is why anyone is in it. Some folks can make very good money but most are expendable drones.
Compare and contrast with Ford and their defective cruise control switches which WERE their fault and to which design they clung to for many years despite losing many vehicles to fire.
Good for Tesla. This response is to their credit. A 50-amp outlet is sufficient to run high-draw items such as welders, let alone a car charger, but bad shit can happen if they aren't done properly. Tesla are going over the top to protect their customers from the consequence of improper wiring by third parties.
""Occasionally the wiring isn't done right" --- ?!?!?! Seriously?"
Residential wiring doesn't have rigorous quality control checks and is frequently as fucked up as a concrete bicycle.
Browse home inspector horror stories for pics of some of the worse examples, then remember very few homes are inspected by pros after construction.
If you give MSFT money why would you not effortlessly download a clean W7 .iso and install using that and Daz loader?
They get paid for an operating systems so should not your conscience be clear?
Load Suse on it (noticed your nick) then run W7 in a VM for even more convenience. Reverting to a snapshot beats bare metal recovery or other troubleshooting any day.