Well, did they actually ask them? I don't think so. Of course, being the EU, if they did ask people and got the answer they didn't want then they'd just keep asking them until they gave up and agreed so that they could get on with their lives.
I'm all for scrapping summertime, not keeping it permanently.
File handling itself is fine. The way information about files is aggregated and displayed to users is what is frustrating. e.g. File save dialogues which have custom sorting for a folder and have thumbnails enabled load the thumbnail cache before sorting. That is truly frigging dumb. It's not that file handling is slow, it's that Windows does stuff not relevant for the user at odd times.
Even if that was the whole of it, it's pretty cold comfort. But my experience of copying large (60GB+) files from a backup drive to the internal drive with Windows 10 is that it simply can't do it and always crashes at some point in the process. Perhaps it's a USB subsystem issue but in any case it's ridiculous.
Tax rises were mainly caused by the response of Europe and America to the banking crisis. That crisis continues to this day as UK and EU leaders refuse to deal with the underlying cause. I'll not flog the horse as you clearly don't follow financial markets at all but currently the price of UK bonds is going up, not down, as the UK economy continues to be more robust than the Eurozone which is STILL on "emergency" negative interest rates after a decade of QE has left the ECB with €800Bn of bad debt it has no idea what to do with except to pump up inflation to make it go away (because inflation has a much smaller effect on the rich, so that's fine).
Meanwhile, the ECB quite literally killed Greeks in order to prevent them leaving the Eurozone. But I suppose you don't worry so much about that.
it was only ever the old racists generation that supported it anyway
:) In fact, the racists in UKIP and other places lost the Leave campaign votes, I believe. Now that the dust has settled I think we would probably get a bigger Leave vote. But we don't have to - we had a vote and your side lost. But like the good anti-democratic EU supporter that you are you want to keep voting until everyone votes the "right" way. As Donald Tusk might say, why bother voting at all when you have all those clever technocrats to guide you (you know, the ones that led us off a financial cliff in 2008)?
Immigration was a very minor issue for the vast majority of Leavers, but it made great headlines for London newspapers. The world is full of people who want to work and live in a G8 country; there's no reason to give people who are already lucky enough to do so special treatment.
The idea that the EU would easily give us what you want has similarly been proven wrong
Anyone who thought that was an idiot - this is a fight for survival and there's no way the EU is ever going to give a deal even remotely in the UKs favour. Strangely, I see that as an argument to get out and get out fast. I assume that you think someone locking you in a room must be your friend.
The EU can't turn the electricity off in the UK like they did to the Greeks, but they'll do anything and everything to make Brexit hard because if it's not then Italy will go (it might anyway), followed by France and then the game's up.
Maybe then we can all get together and create a European Community based on democracy and respect instead of funnelling as much money as possible into the accounts of the 0.1% at the top.
Flags make great blindfolds. Just because yours has little stars on it doesn't mean it's the sky you're looking at.
If Microsoft Windows was only bought based on its quality and reliability there wouldn't have been a Windows 3, and if there had then ME would have killed it off, and of not then Vista would have, and if not then Windows 10... and so it goes one. Windows has never really been ready for the desktop - it's still unbearably bad/slow at even simple file handling.
Microsoft have zero incentive to do things better because the market never punishes them for their mistakes. They just shrug their shoulders and carry on regardless.
The current inhabitants were more or less created by and worshipped Satan
Was this really what was believed? I thought it was just this "They are savages and lesser than us because me are smart and they iz dumb and weird" rather than literally being creations of Satan?
White pagans were regarded right from the start as worshiping Satan. Brown pagans were often classed as literally inhuman as well as worshipping Satan.
with the Genesis story in particular being widely relegated to the status of a folk-story in Britain and Europe, even by church leaders
And weird, hadn't heard of this, with leadership thinking it was fake old stories. I guess I never try to look into what other's believe and whatnot though. Just seems weird to be in charge and not believe any of it
I didn't say they didn't believe any of it, but they viewed Genesis in particular as speculation rather than literal truth. Indeed, it's really that attitude that the people who say they take the Bible (whatever that is) as literal truth are taking a stand against, not atheism. The opposing view - that it's a mixture of tradition and revealed truth - is the mainstream in the UK.
Funny how these trolls always affect the side the person writing the article doesn't support, isn't it? I mean, no one would dream of spreading misinformation on the Remain side - they're all saints devoted to the purity of Truth.
I'm sure Russian trolls are feeding out misinformation about all sorts of things. The real issue is whether it has any more effect than the lies politicians tell.
Well, I disagree but that's at least a reasoned explanation; not sure why you're getting modded down as a troll.
I don't think "we" (by which I mean "you Americans") are really thinking that way. I think it's much more to do with the history of the country. As others have said, America was founded by violent religious bigots who believed that their god had given them the continent and the current inhabitants were more or less created by and worshipped Satan, so any level of aggression could be directed at them in the name of "good". Meanwhile, the same god had cast them out from paradise because they had learnt the secret of shame for being naked (which is all women's fault, of course). That shame is not misplaced, however: it is the result of obtaining true knowledge from the tree of the same name.
It's all a bit weird but America as we know it today was founded by people who believed this so deeply that they could not share Europe with other Christians who were starting to question these things any more than they could share the new world with the American Indians. They set the pattern and America's splendid isolation allowed it to grow into an all-encompassing culture without serious challenge from the ideas of the Enlightenment and, later, Darwin and others who questioned the whole role of the Christian god in running things - with the Genesis story in particular being widely relegated to the status of a folk-story in Britain and Europe, even by church leaders.
American parents today might rationalise their feelings in the way that you suggest, but I think most of them don't even feel that they need to rationalise them any more than a fish needs to rationalise breathing water.
Anyway, it was a thought-provoking comment, so thanks for that.
Yeah, manual light controls are a must-have, although they don't have to be manual-only.
I look forward to seeing how these things does in London; I could do with a laugh. They can barely cope with the half-empty grid of the US interstate system. And as for Glasgow!
If what he said wasn't true - and should be removed from the conference - then there mustn't be a problem with sexism in science, right?
But we all know that there is a problem.
So what he said was true - science is mostly built by men because women have been excluded for the majority of times and places where it was practised, and that needs to change.
There's so much going on here that it's hard to untangle everything. The CoC as written is a blackmailer's charter, but in the real world personalities do matter and it's possible for a person to be excluded simply because "the group" can't work with them.
In a public context like the Linux development team and mailing list I think the reality is that it's hard to hide genuine unfairness and the GPL means that if enough of a mass believe that something has genuinely gone wrong they can take the ball away and play their own game and release their own kernel (trademarking is an issue with that theory, of course). IMO, that's more than enough to "keep it honest".
The new CoC is so broad with its definition of what is abusive that it's suddenly turned normal conversation on the mailing list into a minefield:
"It's crazy to use a signed int for measuring the size of a buffer here."
"'Crazy' is a derogatory comment; you can't refuse my code on that basis."
"Jesus! Right. I'm sorry."
"I'm an atheist and object to your proselytizing at me."
etc.
It's a classic example of more detailed text making it harder to be reasonable instead of easier, or if you prefer making it easier to be unreasonable. For the person who wants to be disruptive, it gives far too many things they can point to while at the same time making it harder for the rest of the group to exclude that disruptive person because "I'm just enforcing the CoC you all agreed to". And none of this is happening in isolation. The damage has been done elsewhere.
As I said on a previous thread, the problems of society are real and need fixed, but they need to be fixed lower down the stack. Once you start writing software that goes into aircraft or cars, meritocracy is the only option.
Seriously, Bruce? If you read the CoC, it has nothing to say about anything technical at all. Specifically, it never says that good code will be accepted regardless of who submits it, which is the only CoC any software project should ever have IMO.
The CoC literally has infinitely more content about genitals and what you chose to do with them than it has about making good software, since it has some text about the former and none about the latter.
You're right about Mao though. But he was a fascist, not a communist and certainly not a Democratic Socialist.
Fuck yeah! Haven't gotten to see the No-True-Scotsman fallacy in a long time. Thank you! (seriously).
Mao said he was communist, he ran a communist country, his successors are communists.. But no.. he was a fascist, because you know better...
Well, yes. Mao could say anything he wanted to because he was a fascist dictator.
If someone who had never been to Scotland, while living in Germany descended from Indian parents called themselves a Scotsman I'd probably say they were wrong too.
I don't know about India but in the West, a laptop with a the data they need will mysteriouly go missing.
And turn up in India.
The real problem here isn't so much that India is the identity theft capital of the world but that people apparently think they can trust the database! It costs about $50 to bribe an Indian technician to do just about anything short of giving you their first-born son (daughters you can have for free); how many of these biometric entries are in there solely to serve as provenance for false identities?
Why do you think so many politicians want to lower the voting age to 16? It's not because they value the insight the new voters would bring, that's for sure.
The kernel is an engineering project. As such, meritocracy is the only sane way to run it - just like building bridges or ships - if your code is good then it's in, no matter who you are or what you or anyone else identifies you as. There's simply no reason to accept someone or their work if it's sub-standard no matter how hard their lives have been (or are perceived to have been).
The issue of diversity is a social issue and has to be/needs to be solved elsewhere.
That's not how taxes work. If I do a bit of artful tax planning and manage to pay less, you don't have to pay more. The gov't just has to get by on less.
Slashdot Mirror
http://web.ku.edu/~eceurope/hi...
...with private medicine in one phrase:
the expenses came from lost patient revenues
When patients are revenues, who's interested in curing anything?
Well, did they actually ask them? I don't think so. Of course, being the EU, if they did ask people and got the answer they didn't want then they'd just keep asking them until they gave up and agreed so that they could get on with their lives.
I'm all for scrapping summertime, not keeping it permanently.
That is exciting news!
I guess "Google maps are more detailed than Apple's in 96.9% of US" didn't really score enough Apple fanboi points, did it?
I'm paying you to entertain me, so bloody get on with it.
Nazi architecture for the 21st century.
File handling itself is fine. The way information about files is aggregated and displayed to users is what is frustrating. e.g. File save dialogues which have custom sorting for a folder and have thumbnails enabled load the thumbnail cache before sorting. That is truly frigging dumb. It's not that file handling is slow, it's that Windows does stuff not relevant for the user at odd times.
Even if that was the whole of it, it's pretty cold comfort. But my experience of copying large (60GB+) files from a backup drive to the internal drive with Windows 10 is that it simply can't do it and always crashes at some point in the process. Perhaps it's a USB subsystem issue but in any case it's ridiculous.
Tax rises were mainly caused by the response of Europe and America to the banking crisis. That crisis continues to this day as UK and EU leaders refuse to deal with the underlying cause. I'll not flog the horse as you clearly don't follow financial markets at all but currently the price of UK bonds is going up, not down, as the UK economy continues to be more robust than the Eurozone which is STILL on "emergency" negative interest rates after a decade of QE has left the ECB with €800Bn of bad debt it has no idea what to do with except to pump up inflation to make it go away (because inflation has a much smaller effect on the rich, so that's fine).
Meanwhile, the ECB quite literally killed Greeks in order to prevent them leaving the Eurozone. But I suppose you don't worry so much about that.
it was only ever the old racists generation that supported it anyway
:) In fact, the racists in UKIP and other places lost the Leave campaign votes, I believe. Now that the dust has settled I think we would probably get a bigger Leave vote. But we don't have to - we had a vote and your side lost. But like the good anti-democratic EU supporter that you are you want to keep voting until everyone votes the "right" way. As Donald Tusk might say, why bother voting at all when you have all those clever technocrats to guide you (you know, the ones that led us off a financial cliff in 2008)?
Immigration was a very minor issue for the vast majority of Leavers, but it made great headlines for London newspapers. The world is full of people who want to work and live in a G8 country; there's no reason to give people who are already lucky enough to do so special treatment.
The idea that the EU would easily give us what you want has similarly been proven wrong
Anyone who thought that was an idiot - this is a fight for survival and there's no way the EU is ever going to give a deal even remotely in the UKs favour. Strangely, I see that as an argument to get out and get out fast. I assume that you think someone locking you in a room must be your friend.
The EU can't turn the electricity off in the UK like they did to the Greeks, but they'll do anything and everything to make Brexit hard because if it's not then Italy will go (it might anyway), followed by France and then the game's up.
Maybe then we can all get together and create a European Community based on democracy and respect instead of funnelling as much money as possible into the accounts of the 0.1% at the top.
Flags make great blindfolds. Just because yours has little stars on it doesn't mean it's the sky you're looking at.
Just don't deal with Nazi China. Suffocate the Party; wipe out its interests overseas. Do not sell its goods; do not sell them goods.
Just because the leader doesn't have a little moustache doesn't mean he's a nice guy.
If Microsoft Windows was only bought based on its quality and reliability there wouldn't have been a Windows 3, and if there had then ME would have killed it off, and of not then Vista would have, and if not then Windows 10... and so it goes one. Windows has never really been ready for the desktop - it's still unbearably bad/slow at even simple file handling.
Microsoft have zero incentive to do things better because the market never punishes them for their mistakes. They just shrug their shoulders and carry on regardless.
The current inhabitants were more or less created by and worshipped Satan
Was this really what was believed? I thought it was just this "They are savages and lesser than us because me are smart and they iz dumb and weird" rather than literally being creations of Satan?
White pagans were regarded right from the start as worshiping Satan. Brown pagans were often classed as literally inhuman as well as worshipping Satan.
with the Genesis story in particular being widely relegated to the status of a folk-story in Britain and Europe, even by church leaders
And weird, hadn't heard of this, with leadership thinking it was fake old stories. I guess I never try to look into what other's believe and whatnot though. Just seems weird to be in charge and not believe any of it
I didn't say they didn't believe any of it, but they viewed Genesis in particular as speculation rather than literal truth. Indeed, it's really that attitude that the people who say they take the Bible (whatever that is) as literal truth are taking a stand against, not atheism. The opposing view - that it's a mixture of tradition and revealed truth - is the mainstream in the UK.
Funny how these trolls always affect the side the person writing the article doesn't support, isn't it? I mean, no one would dream of spreading misinformation on the Remain side - they're all saints devoted to the purity of Truth.
I'm sure Russian trolls are feeding out misinformation about all sorts of things. The real issue is whether it has any more effect than the lies politicians tell.
Well, I disagree but that's at least a reasoned explanation; not sure why you're getting modded down as a troll.
I don't think "we" (by which I mean "you Americans") are really thinking that way. I think it's much more to do with the history of the country. As others have said, America was founded by violent religious bigots who believed that their god had given them the continent and the current inhabitants were more or less created by and worshipped Satan, so any level of aggression could be directed at them in the name of "good". Meanwhile, the same god had cast them out from paradise because they had learnt the secret of shame for being naked (which is all women's fault, of course). That shame is not misplaced, however: it is the result of obtaining true knowledge from the tree of the same name.
It's all a bit weird but America as we know it today was founded by people who believed this so deeply that they could not share Europe with other Christians who were starting to question these things any more than they could share the new world with the American Indians. They set the pattern and America's splendid isolation allowed it to grow into an all-encompassing culture without serious challenge from the ideas of the Enlightenment and, later, Darwin and others who questioned the whole role of the Christian god in running things - with the Genesis story in particular being widely relegated to the status of a folk-story in Britain and Europe, even by church leaders.
American parents today might rationalise their feelings in the way that you suggest, but I think most of them don't even feel that they need to rationalise them any more than a fish needs to rationalise breathing water.
Anyway, it was a thought-provoking comment, so thanks for that.
Yeah, manual light controls are a must-have, although they don't have to be manual-only.
I look forward to seeing how these things does in London; I could do with a laugh. They can barely cope with the half-empty grid of the US interstate system. And as for Glasgow!
"Hi, baby. Where's the car?"
"In the river."
You appear to think that sysvinit is the alternative to systemd. How quaint.
To be honest, I don't really care much for the gender of scientists. I don't want to fuck them, I want them to make groundbreaking discoveries.
With me, they can do both!
If what he said wasn't true - and should be removed from the conference - then there mustn't be a problem with sexism in science, right?
But we all know that there is a problem.
So what he said was true - science is mostly built by men because women have been excluded for the majority of times and places where it was practised, and that needs to change.
So what the hell is going on here?
There's so much going on here that it's hard to untangle everything. The CoC as written is a blackmailer's charter, but in the real world personalities do matter and it's possible for a person to be excluded simply because "the group" can't work with them.
In a public context like the Linux development team and mailing list I think the reality is that it's hard to hide genuine unfairness and the GPL means that if enough of a mass believe that something has genuinely gone wrong they can take the ball away and play their own game and release their own kernel (trademarking is an issue with that theory, of course). IMO, that's more than enough to "keep it honest".
The new CoC is so broad with its definition of what is abusive that it's suddenly turned normal conversation on the mailing list into a minefield:
"It's crazy to use a signed int for measuring the size of a buffer here."
"'Crazy' is a derogatory comment; you can't refuse my code on that basis."
"Jesus! Right. I'm sorry."
"I'm an atheist and object to your proselytizing at me."
etc.
It's a classic example of more detailed text making it harder to be reasonable instead of easier, or if you prefer making it easier to be unreasonable. For the person who wants to be disruptive, it gives far too many things they can point to while at the same time making it harder for the rest of the group to exclude that disruptive person because "I'm just enforcing the CoC you all agreed to". And none of this is happening in isolation. The damage has been done elsewhere.
As I said on a previous thread, the problems of society are real and need fixed, but they need to be fixed lower down the stack. Once you start writing software that goes into aircraft or cars, meritocracy is the only option.
Seriously, Bruce? If you read the CoC, it has nothing to say about anything technical at all. Specifically, it never says that good code will be accepted regardless of who submits it, which is the only CoC any software project should ever have IMO.
The CoC literally has infinitely more content about genitals and what you chose to do with them than it has about making good software, since it has some text about the former and none about the latter.
You're right about Mao though. But he was a fascist, not a communist and certainly not a Democratic Socialist.
Fuck yeah! Haven't gotten to see the No-True-Scotsman fallacy in a long time. Thank you! (seriously).
Mao said he was communist, he ran a communist country, his successors are communists.. But no.. he was a fascist, because you know better...
Well, yes. Mao could say anything he wanted to because he was a fascist dictator.
If someone who had never been to Scotland, while living in Germany descended from Indian parents called themselves a Scotsman I'd probably say they were wrong too.
But, hey, you know better, Humpty.
I don't know about India but in the West, a laptop with a the data they need will mysteriouly go missing.
And turn up in India.
The real problem here isn't so much that India is the identity theft capital of the world but that people apparently think they can trust the database! It costs about $50 to bribe an Indian technician to do just about anything short of giving you their first-born son (daughters you can have for free); how many of these biometric entries are in there solely to serve as provenance for false identities?
Why do you think so many politicians want to lower the voting age to 16? It's not because they value the insight the new voters would bring, that's for sure.
If you think of China as like 'Oh yeah, they're not a Nazi super-state so it's okay to trade with them,' you're missing the point.
The kernel is an engineering project. As such, meritocracy is the only sane way to run it - just like building bridges or ships - if your code is good then it's in, no matter who you are or what you or anyone else identifies you as. There's simply no reason to accept someone or their work if it's sub-standard no matter how hard their lives have been (or are perceived to have been).
The issue of diversity is a social issue and has to be/needs to be solved elsewhere.
getting them to pay your share of the tax bill
That's not how taxes work. If I do a bit of artful tax planning and manage to pay less, you don't have to pay more. The gov't just has to get by on less.
That's quite far from the truth.