It's a trade college. That relationship is normal.
I would never hold anything over trade college management. That's ADVERSARIAL and stupid. They are insecure enough that they don't work in a real college. DO NOT press that button.
I would make my app make ME valuable, and ensure that any features it might need would require me to add them.
Got another job lined up? Trade colleges know working there beats the crap out of a real job (especially the cake schedule, we worked four-day weeks) and they can get replacements all day.
I'd use the app, and not disclose shit about it. If you get laid off they can write a support contract if they need to. Heck, customize everything you can to your benefit while you are there. All users want is an absence of hassle.
Hoard knowledge, make YOUR job smoother, look busy, and remember you are in an ACADEMIC environment. Play that game and don't pretend you aren't in a trade school.
"I learned from watching governments that might makes right, guns let you force your will on other people and that it's OK to kidnap, torture and even assassinate people that disagree with you when the invisible magic sky fairy tells you to."
I learned from the US government losing interest in Iraq and getting ready to bolt A-stan that guns in the hands of determined citizens can make it difficult for even a superpower to maintain control and for it to do so requires a crippling financial commitment.
IEDs etc help, but firearms are basic to getting in the game.
The unification of China, expulsion of colonial influence, and moving China from warlordism and anarchy into the modern age are among Maoist accomplishments, like it or not. Tens of millions or a hundred million isn't much relative to China's population and a reasonable price to pay.
Bolshevism forced the Soviet Union into the modern age and made it capable of defeating the Wehrmacht, in contrast to the Tsarist government who lost to the Kaisers army.
Communism isn't very nice and has a terrible economic model, but its willingness to erase opponents made it a fine way to destroy failing, obstacle governments and social systems, particularly those reinforced by superstition.
Unlike religion, Communism very quickly disappeared (in historic term, "decades" = quickly) once enough people understood it is an illogical construct for any purpose other than offense against an enemy.
"A lot more people (with a lot wider diversity) need to have a shot at making it into space (and we need more rides into space) for us to become a permanently space-faring and space-surviving species. I'm sorry, it's that simple."
We don't need them in space at the moment, and since sending humans long before unmanned and remote-manned tech humans MUST have to do anything useful in space is a waste of resources, diversity can wait.
PCs at work, PC in my home workshop, notebook by my recliner from which I'm posting, etc mean I don't use the features on my "semi-smart" phone or care they exist.
The military flew and flies long missions with conventional LOX bottles, so while loiter may be a consideration I have modest doubts as to it being a major motivator. A larger LOX vessel would have been selected LONG ago were it needed.
Blaming the intruder for their choice to exploit the CHOICE of the homeowner to be vulnerable is appropriate, but the homeowner still CHOSE vulnerability.
We live in a bad fucking world, and if you don't prepare accordingly that indicates you are stupid.
"Welcome to the real world, the property you own isn't yours."
I don't buy a Kindle or a Nook because they don't offer me the control I demand. That's why I use a notebook instead. No smartphone either. I demand asynchronous communication (to respond at my chosen pace) and I enforce that by essentially requiring email. It works very well.
To buy a product is to endorse its business model.
"Machinery has always worn out, selling with a contract that requires a service contract has always been legal (AFAIK) so why are we annoyed about this now?"
Examples please? As a sometime industrial equipment mech I've not seen one.
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It's a trade college. That relationship is normal.
I would never hold anything over trade college management. That's ADVERSARIAL and stupid. They are insecure enough that they don't work in a real college. DO NOT press that button.
I would make my app make ME valuable, and ensure that any features it might need would require me to add them.
Got another job lined up? Trade colleges know working there beats the crap out of a real job (especially the cake schedule, we worked four-day weeks) and they can get replacements all day.
I'd use the app, and not disclose shit about it. If you get laid off they can write a support contract if they need to. Heck, customize everything you can to your benefit while you are there. All users want is an absence of hassle.
Hoard knowledge, make YOUR job smoother, look busy, and remember you are in an ACADEMIC environment. Play that game and don't pretend you aren't in a trade school.
"Both are spokespeople and figureheads whose authority extends little further than public relations. "
The President of the US has the authority to launch a nuclear attack.
"I learned from watching governments that might makes right, guns let you force your will on other people and that it's OK to kidnap, torture and even assassinate people that disagree with you when the invisible magic sky fairy tells you to."
I learned from the US government losing interest in Iraq and getting ready to bolt A-stan that guns in the hands of determined citizens can make it difficult for even a superpower to maintain control and for it to do so requires a crippling financial commitment.
IEDs etc help, but firearms are basic to getting in the game.
There is a dramatic difference between "job" and "no job", especially when you want to "buy stuff".
"CHICOM propaganda ... unfortunately, the CHICOMs still use a single 9mm in the back of the head for dissidents"
Too bad we don't do that for financial crimes. Ever see pics of Chinese executions?
Our smug Wall Streeters who just blew up our economy would look less smug facing shame and shooting. THAT would be an edifying spectacle.
The kind of people who worship sports stars are thuggish enough to respond to such PR.
Citation needed. Which country?
That level of dumbfuckery is normal. Too bad for the rest of us.
"Hard to preach long term thinking when most people in the community die in their thirties..."
Who needs long term thinking when the only objective is to enter Paradise? Superstition erases the need to care about much else.
The unification of China, expulsion of colonial influence, and moving China from warlordism and anarchy into the modern age are among Maoist accomplishments, like it or not. Tens of millions or a hundred million isn't much relative to China's population and a reasonable price to pay.
Bolshevism forced the Soviet Union into the modern age and made it capable of defeating the Wehrmacht, in contrast to the Tsarist government who lost to the Kaisers army.
Communism isn't very nice and has a terrible economic model, but its willingness to erase opponents made it a fine way to destroy failing, obstacle governments and social systems, particularly those reinforced by superstition.
Unlike religion, Communism very quickly disappeared (in historic term, "decades" = quickly) once enough people understood it is an illogical construct for any purpose other than offense against an enemy.
I don't consider the casualty rate from EITHER method to be high enough to bother reducing further due to economic tradeoffs.
We already live so long as to be guaranteed decades of crippled incontinent dementia.
"A lot more people (with a lot wider diversity) need to have a shot at making it into space (and we need more rides into space) for us to become a permanently space-faring and space-surviving species. I'm sorry, it's that simple."
We don't need them in space at the moment, and since sending humans long before unmanned and remote-manned tech humans MUST have to do anything useful in space is a waste of resources, diversity can wait.
And dispersing poisons we can not control at all is preferable?
All our energy choices including "none" are paid for in dead and maimed.
We also kill tens of thousands of people each year driving to work. It's a perfectly reasonable tradeoff.
"For some reason the US Nuclear Lobby mostly descended to the level of mere rent seekers in the 1980s"
There is no incentive to lobby for nuclear power. There are other ways to make money.
That's LONG overdue. The US should ditch its counterproductive pride and let other "early adopters" take the risks.
"Kubuntu is hardly going "out of your way to use it"."
Windows users don't like installing software.... ......oh......(runs)
"Could we please get a moratorium on experimental solar technology articles?"
Slashdot is an entertainment site, and tech we won't use for many years if ever is still entertaining.
Consider the ancient Popular Science magazines. Some of that stuff made it, much did not, but it was entertaining to read.
Certainly. Early Adopters pay for a shitload of tech us peons use later.
Computer components come to mind.....
PCs at work, PC in my home workshop, notebook by my recliner from which I'm posting, etc mean I don't use the features on my "semi-smart" phone or care they exist.
The military flew and flies long missions with conventional LOX bottles, so while loiter may be a consideration I have modest doubts as to it being a major motivator. A larger LOX vessel would have been selected LONG ago were it needed.
"the thing feels like it's designed for tablets,"
YOU WILL WORSHIP TABLETS DAMMIT and YOU WILL WANT A TABLETACEOUS INTERFACE on everything which is not a tablet!!!!
Yours in Unity,
The GNOME Foundation.
Blaming the intruder for their choice to exploit the CHOICE of the homeowner to be vulnerable is appropriate, but the homeowner still CHOSE vulnerability.
We live in a bad fucking world, and if you don't prepare accordingly that indicates you are stupid.
"Finally we've tracked down that bad printer driver to China."
It can't be in China. The printer is an HP and their software is too bloated to fit.
"Welcome to the real world, the property you own isn't yours."
I don't buy a Kindle or a Nook because they don't offer me the control I demand. That's why I use a notebook instead. No smartphone either. I demand asynchronous communication (to respond at my chosen pace) and I enforce that by essentially requiring email. It works very well.
To buy a product is to endorse its business model.
"Machinery has always worn out, selling with a contract that requires a service contract has always been legal (AFAIK) so why are we annoyed about this now?"
Examples please? As a sometime industrial equipment mech I've not seen one.