School is PURELY a financial transaction, but schools want to fuck their customers good and hard. (I found working in a community college highly educational.) They want to make programs fit available funding, and Pell Grant farming is standard.
The profits made on books are calculated as part of the profit of each program. They are NOT provided by the school book store as a convenience, unless you consider anal rape convenient.
"I understand that they want the interface to be easy for anyone to approach, but what about those of us who want to do more than just browse the web and share pictures of the grandkids?"
This is kinda cool. You can choose stuff. It's a fork of Ubuntu or something.
When I was training WIA students who were highly "experienced" at being (repeatedly) unemployed due to the economy I learned a lot from them.
Take the LONGEST most useful course you can AND see if the school will call multiple courses some "hyphenated" SINGLE course for you. If your Unemployment will last through this, ensure your expressed preferences via the unemployment office "protect" you against being coerced to take jobs you don't really WANT. A great way is to pick a distance from home which excludes potential employers.
Milk it, get the papers, and use the time. You might even channel schooling into obtaining a teaching gig. Schools KNOW students take courses they could probably teach. They get paid so they are fine with that.
Make faculty friends! It's a club and it's a club where being an Old Fucker is a sign of stability! (I'm an Old Fucker, BTW.) Use that human networking kung-fu young noobs think they don't need because they are Unique Snowflakes. You know TEAM behaviours.
We work to serve our elite masters who milk us like cattle, so use every opportunity the system gives you. THEY DO. It's every man for himself.
Carry your passport/docs ON YOU, separate from your wallet, end of story.
If you need medicine to survive, wear enough to buy time to reload.
That's basic security at home or abroad. You should also carry duplicate info on a flash drive and wear that, and be able to access another copy online.
People who understand that computers "don't give a fuck what they think" need to understand many PEOPLE don't give a fuck what they WANT.
Any geek should be delighted to embrace physical security measures as they are to embrace computer security measures.
Total War, lest we forget, was completely SUCCESSFUL in the cases where it was applied to defeat the Axis.
Rather than attempting to speak for officers, study history. Many of them do.
No war since WWII has been anything other than limited war fought to ADJUST international relationships.
Because we (now) wage limited war as (small) moralist jihad instead of as a normal way to adjust the international landscape, there is overmuch passion (which clouds JUDGEMENT) attached to Limited War. That leads to mission creep and nation-building in enemy cultures.
Conscription didn't instil anything in recent decades but resistance to conscription and desire to GTFO the military. The Hollow Force era demonstrated that thoroughly and well. I served during the Reagan recovery and
Manual labor sucks unless its for yourself or you get well paid for it. The cult of working yourself do exhaustion so you can get shitcanned next time FuckyouCorp right-sizes its workforce understandably went away.
There is no point in work without reward.
The elites don't give a fuck, the poor get government monies, so why should they want to carry everyone else and be chumps?
I get the "slackers" point. Martyrdom is a virtue in others.
We need more destructive malware that wrecks unsecured systems, or USERS WILL NEVER CARE ABOUT SECURITY.
Immune responses are built be sustained attack.
Humans aren't wired to worry about vague threats of things they will never understand. They ARE wired to worry about their machines being bricked and the loss of data they will never back up.
Americans are "used to" the UN and don't realise that it's merely a corrupt money sink which does nothing good.
Membership is a renunciation of national sovereignty, which for the short bus crowd means "a renunciation of YOUR vote in favor of that of foreign governments".
Give it some thought to see if YOU are made FREER by this arrangement.
"It could have been worse, the instruction could have been to wipe the computer's hard drive, or worse, load garbage into the EEPROM, overwrite the BIOS, and THEN wipe the computer's boot sectors, then hard drives... would be tough to recover from that. Even if you have backups and a boot disk... if your BIOS is destroyed, your computer is going to require professional help even to get to the point where it starts looking for a bootloader..."
If THAT happened, people would actually pay attention to computer security. It would be counter-productive.
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...Free and Open textbooks for all their courses.
School is PURELY a financial transaction, but schools want to fuck their customers good and hard. (I found working in a community college highly educational.) They want to make programs fit available funding, and Pell Grant farming is standard.
The profits made on books are calculated as part of the profit of each program. They are NOT provided by the school book store as a convenience, unless you consider anal rape convenient.
"It's the W95 classic toolbar GUI that people miss from Gnome 3 and KDE 3."
Heretic! You must don the Ring Gag of Eye Candy and lie below the Queening Stool of the Sacred Tablet Interface.
"I understand that they want the interface to be easy for anyone to approach, but what about those of us who want to do more than just browse the web and share pictures of the grandkids?"
This is kinda cool. You can choose stuff. It's a fork of Ubuntu or something.
http://www.debian.org/
"I greatly respect everyone who contributes to open source, and I know you put your heart and soul into it, "
The "Eye Candy Infliction Group" aren't doing "heart and soul", they are just wanking or copying other OS and it shows.
They don't give a fuck when that is pointed out, and THAT shows.
"My favourite thing is raw speed. Absoloute unquestioning speed."
XFCE is surprisingly decent on my ancient P4 with 768MB RAM I use for a shop PC.
Window-lickers want eye candy, and they should have it, but for people who USE a PC, speed matters.
The West rejects some research, so find a welcoming alternative.
"I've decided life's too fucking short to search for drivers,"
I do much more of that when I reload Windows for other people.
I buy supported hardware when I make the purchasing decisions.
That's HIGHLY Insightful.
When I was training WIA students who were highly "experienced" at being (repeatedly) unemployed due to the economy I learned a lot from them.
Take the LONGEST most useful course you can AND see if the school will call multiple courses some "hyphenated" SINGLE course for you. If your Unemployment will last through this, ensure your expressed preferences via the unemployment office "protect" you against being coerced to take jobs you don't really WANT. A great way is to pick a distance from home which excludes potential employers.
Milk it, get the papers, and use the time. You might even channel schooling into obtaining a teaching gig. Schools KNOW students take courses they could probably teach. They get paid so they are fine with that.
Make faculty friends! It's a club and it's a club where being an Old Fucker is a sign of stability! (I'm an Old Fucker, BTW.) Use that human networking kung-fu young noobs think they don't need because they are Unique Snowflakes. You know TEAM behaviours.
We work to serve our elite masters who milk us like cattle, so use every opportunity the system gives you. THEY DO. It's every man for himself.
If you were serious you'd be gone already.
Volunteer for the Peace Corps etc, become an expat, then finish the move later in life.
Plenty of Americans DO move overseas, but few because their wittle feewings are hurt.
That statement ignores NET GAIN vs. "no jobs". Companies spend money on a vast range of goods and services which ARE taxed.
"even though politicians try and claim they're "creating jobs" they're really just stealing them from other states."
That's COMPETITION, not theft. Just as when foreign countries try to land businesses with incentive, States do so too.
If I do something stupid, even my best friends will call me out on it.
That's WHY they are my best friends.
You shouldn't have been modded Troll for that.
Naive people don't take security measures. That some REFUSE means the point doesn't get hammered enough!
In other news, slow Zebra get eaten.
Carry your passport/docs ON YOU, separate from your wallet, end of story.
If you need medicine to survive, wear enough to buy time to reload.
That's basic security at home or abroad. You should also carry duplicate info on a flash drive and wear that, and be able to access another copy online.
People who understand that computers "don't give a fuck what they think" need to understand many PEOPLE don't give a fuck what they WANT.
Any geek should be delighted to embrace physical security measures as they are to embrace computer security measures.
Total War, lest we forget, was completely SUCCESSFUL in the cases where it was applied to defeat the Axis.
Rather than attempting to speak for officers, study history. Many of them do.
No war since WWII has been anything other than limited war fought to ADJUST international relationships.
Because we (now) wage limited war as (small) moralist jihad instead of as a normal way to adjust the international landscape, there is overmuch passion (which clouds JUDGEMENT) attached to Limited War. That leads to mission creep and nation-building in enemy cultures.
We also maintained the petrodollar and removed a military threat to Israel.
Obvious but un-stated goals.
"I thought the "drones, such as he v1, were outlawed by international treaty, after WWII, And I thought we signed on to that treaty."
I thought we had the Internet where you could look up and post links to relevant treaties before posting. It appears I was mistaken.
"So it's cowardly to remotely fly a drone and fire on people,"
Siege engines and artillery called, citing Prior Art.
"The use of overwhelming force may satisfy some primitive emotional desires, but it basically never leads to a win in any conflict."
The American Civil War, WWII, and the unification of China under the Maoists are some examples disproving that bit of wishful thinking.
Automotive problems are often complex and may have multiple causes.
Reciting a checklist over the air would bore listeners.
Conscription didn't instil anything in recent decades but resistance to conscription and desire to GTFO the military. The Hollow Force era demonstrated that thoroughly and well. I served during the Reagan recovery and
Manual labor sucks unless its for yourself or you get well paid for it. The cult of working yourself do exhaustion so you can get shitcanned next time FuckyouCorp right-sizes its workforce understandably went away.
There is no point in work without reward.
The elites don't give a fuck, the poor get government monies, so why should they want to carry everyone else and be chumps?
I get the "slackers" point. Martyrdom is a virtue in others.
We need more destructive malware that wrecks unsecured systems, or USERS WILL NEVER CARE ABOUT SECURITY.
Immune responses are built be sustained attack.
Humans aren't wired to worry about vague threats of things they will never understand. They ARE wired to worry about their machines being bricked and the loss of data they will never back up.
"The UN do a lot, and some of it is actually useful. "
Citations needed to support why it's worth surrendering national sovereignty to the United Nations.
If you don't know what to do, throw lots of shit against a wall and see what sticks.
Innovation it ain't, but it can pay off.
They should come together against the US.
Americans are "used to" the UN and don't realise that it's merely a corrupt money sink which does nothing good.
Membership is a renunciation of national sovereignty, which for the short bus crowd means "a renunciation of YOUR vote in favor of that of foreign governments".
Give it some thought to see if YOU are made FREER by this arrangement.
"It could have been worse, the instruction could have been to wipe the computer's hard drive, or worse, load garbage into the EEPROM, overwrite the BIOS, and THEN wipe the computer's boot sectors, then hard drives... would be tough to recover from that. Even if you have backups and a boot disk... if your BIOS is destroyed, your computer is going to require professional help even to get to the point where it starts looking for a bootloader..."
If THAT happened, people would actually pay attention to computer security. It would be counter-productive.