but wow...more and more you're starting to see this
You're only saying that because people are posting it online. The fact is in terms of social norms the hive mind has always existed and voicing something out of line with that has always vilified the person.
Social justice is nothing new. The only thing new about it is the current flavour of the month.
They're completely out of hand in the Obama/Trump era.
The Obama era? You mean the Obama who has cast the lowest number of executive orders per year since Grover Cleveland in 1889? Is that the Obama era you're talking about?
And as much as we like to heap shit on Trump, he's got a long way to go before he gets to the level of Carter. Actually he's got a long way to go to get to the level of T. Roosevelt to Carter, as in the first 80 years of last century.
It's quite telling that the behaviour most resembling an "arsehole" is that of the people who use the term "glasshole" to describe someone who owns something rather than describing their actions.
Maybe go on youtube one day and see just how many people have photos or videos of strangers online. You'll be amazed to know that the majority of the world does not simply beat the shit out of other people.
Ah, the ones that reset everything and lose data whenever MS fucked up yet another update
Oh that ol' meme. You haven't lost data as a result of anything with windows including a complete reinstall in many years. But you knew that already didn't you. "what you're gonna do now! Keep trollin', trollin', trollin', trollin' (what?)"
Of course it does. I can change my lock, but I sure as fuck can't bolt something to the outside of my building. A lot of people in a lot of cities will be in this position.
The problem with USA health system. You shouldn't have to focus on anything other than recovery and going on about your life.
My own experience in Australia: 1. Had a hernia 2. Went to the doctor. He asked which system I wanted to be referred to, waiting list on the public system was 4 months. I said private. 3. Went to private specialist. He quoted $8900 including a week at the hospital, gave him my insurance number, he said that my gap will be $2200 after insurance. 4. Said fuck that went back tot he doctor and asked to be re-referred to the public system. 5. 2 days later I was in hospital for a triage appointment. Was classified as a very low risk so went in the 4 month queue and went about my life. 6. 3 weeks later get a call saying there was a cancellation do I want to come in for my op. 7. Went in the day after for the op. 8. 4 days later I was discharged from hospital with a prescription for painkillers. 9. Bought pain killers. 10. End.
Total cost to me: $3.50 for a 24 pack of strong painkillers subsidised under the PBS. Yeah it could have taken 4 months, but I also had the option to have it fixed that same week with an agreed upon up front cost, but my cheap private insurance (which costs $600/yr before taking into account the $500/yr tax credits I get for having it) didn't cover that specific op so I didn't bother.
No it's BAD because people who think that any part of this thread said it's BAD failed at fundamental reading comprehension. Stay in school Anonymous Coward. Stay. In. School.
Please explain how knowing how much money each hospital, doctor, or clinic is going to charge you is a BAD thing?
Easy: It's not. You're trying to read something in my post which I didn't say. This is a good thing but at the same time it is completely and utterly fucking irrelevant given the problems of the American medical industry.
Knowing up front how much a hospital charges for a service does not mean you have any idea how much you or your insurance company will be paying.
Hopefully some law prevents them from giving access to some random delivery person to their guns
Why would you need a law against some random delivery person having access to these guns, if that random delivery person can just go buy them from their nearest gunshop?
Interesting side note, the cheapest car available in the USA seems to be a Nissan Note at 88hp, it also is one of the weakest on the USA market based on my 10minutes of intense googling.
My own car, one of the most popular in Europe weighs in at 86hp and it's the 3rd weakest in its range and genre. The SEAT Mii which is probably the cheapest car in Europe comes in at 59hp.
Different priorities.
But my point is that Americans are often genuinely confused at how I could possibly drive such a "weak" car. They are even more confused when I tell them I regularly drive that car at 170km/h:-)
when Ford has ditched all its cars that people will actually want to buy when gas is $5 a gallon.
Americans are often confused why Europeans drive small fuel efficient cars. Well I just filled up for $7.80US / gallon. So you can imagine I'm quite happy that my 10 year older beater car gets 45mpg.
You're missing the point: The media shitstorm and calls of bloody murder worked.
Maybe next time everyone should just shut up and Apple can be happy they've won over the public while people with bricked expensive toys can suffer in silence.
Also if you think that Slashdot outrage is limited to Apple and Microsoft then maybe you should actually do something radical... like read Slashdot without your observation bias filter running.
Not a single person who reads Slashdot. The world outside Slashdot. The people who just use their computers rather than change settings on them. The target market that pretty much everyone on a nerd related forum seems to think just doesn't exist.
... so all the screaming of bloody murder over Apple doing this deliberately to hurt people who use 3rd party spares was completely unwarranted.
Or maybe a company backed off after the outrage of their actions and this screaming of bloody murder caused them to release a version of software that didn't screw over consumers who daredeth to not contribute to the Cook retirement fund.
Rather than calling it "unwarranted" a far more accurate term would be "effective".
Similar to what? Relevant texts translated, and the world turning on? Have you read Bullokar's Expositor? I haven't and have no inclination to do so either. There does exist a field of people who do however study this and write in a modern style their analysis on it. If something is translatable it can also be translated. No great loss. You say this as if the Diwan Lughat Al Turk is some lost unreadable script.
By the way comparing something in 1074 CE to this is utterly stupid. Kazakh has been written in Cyrillic script for an astonishing total of 89 years! This change won't represent any great historical loss to the Kazakhs even if for some reason the world does forget how to read a Cyrillic script.
otherwise why would that businessman bother with the change at all?
Yes why would a business risk being progressive hip cool, why would they explore new things rather than sticking with something old? How many times has CocaCola changed their logo? Did Bush force them to do it last time?
Slashdot Mirror
Perplexing system.. Tweeting gets you grounded and homeless.. Killing +100 million people makes you the leader..
Why is that perplexing? What is a stronger show of power, voicing an opinion on a disposable ignorable platform, or slaughtering your enemies en-mass?
but wow...more and more you're starting to see this
You're only saying that because people are posting it online. The fact is in terms of social norms the hive mind has always existed and voicing something out of line with that has always vilified the person.
Social justice is nothing new. The only thing new about it is the current flavour of the month.
They're completely out of hand in the Obama/Trump era.
The Obama era? You mean the Obama who has cast the lowest number of executive orders per year since Grover Cleveland in 1889? Is that the Obama era you're talking about?
And as much as we like to heap shit on Trump, he's got a long way to go before he gets to the level of Carter. Actually he's got a long way to go to get to the level of T. Roosevelt to Carter, as in the first 80 years of last century.
That seems like it should be crossing some sort of legal line.
If appeal to authority were a crime instead of a logical fallacy then Slashdot wouldn't exist.
It's quite telling that the behaviour most resembling an "arsehole" is that of the people who use the term "glasshole" to describe someone who owns something rather than describing their actions.
Maybe go on youtube one day and see just how many people have photos or videos of strangers online. You'll be amazed to know that the majority of the world does not simply beat the shit out of other people.
Ah, the ones that reset everything and lose data whenever MS fucked up yet another update
Oh that ol' meme. You haven't lost data as a result of anything with windows including a complete reinstall in many years. But you knew that already didn't you.
"what you're gonna do now! Keep trollin', trollin', trollin', trollin' (what?)"
But really I jut can't ee it.
Of course it does. I can change my lock, but I sure as fuck can't bolt something to the outside of my building. A lot of people in a lot of cities will be in this position.
Its a lot easier to grab a gun from a trunk (especially if that trunk is already unlocked for you) than to buy one at a gun shop
Yeah in most countries, just not in America. By the way stealing is illegal. So why have a law on stealing guns from a trunk?
with all the paperwork and checks.
eL, Oh, eL.
Needless to say, I focused on
The problem with USA health system. You shouldn't have to focus on anything other than recovery and going on about your life.
My own experience in Australia:
1. Had a hernia
2. Went to the doctor. He asked which system I wanted to be referred to, waiting list on the public system was 4 months. I said private.
3. Went to private specialist. He quoted $8900 including a week at the hospital, gave him my insurance number, he said that my gap will be $2200 after insurance.
4. Said fuck that went back tot he doctor and asked to be re-referred to the public system.
5. 2 days later I was in hospital for a triage appointment. Was classified as a very low risk so went in the 4 month queue and went about my life.
6. 3 weeks later get a call saying there was a cancellation do I want to come in for my op.
7. Went in the day after for the op.
8. 4 days later I was discharged from hospital with a prescription for painkillers.
9. Bought pain killers.
10. End.
Total cost to me: $3.50 for a 24 pack of strong painkillers subsidised under the PBS.
Yeah it could have taken 4 months, but I also had the option to have it fixed that same week with an agreed upon up front cost, but my cheap private insurance (which costs $600/yr before taking into account the $500/yr tax credits I get for having it) didn't cover that specific op so I didn't bother.
It's BAD because
No it's BAD because people who think that any part of this thread said it's BAD failed at fundamental reading comprehension. Stay in school Anonymous Coward. Stay. In. School.
Please explain how knowing how much money each hospital, doctor, or clinic is going to charge you is a BAD thing?
Easy: It's not. You're trying to read something in my post which I didn't say. This is a good thing but at the same time it is completely and utterly fucking irrelevant given the problems of the American medical industry.
Knowing up front how much a hospital charges for a service does not mean you have any idea how much you or your insurance company will be paying.
1) Get large crate, fix it in place to prevent removal
2) Come back tomorrow and find crate gone as well as a nasty note from the apartment landlord.
Hopefully some law prevents them from giving access to some random delivery person to their guns
Why would you need a law against some random delivery person having access to these guns, if that random delivery person can just go buy them from their nearest gunshop?
If people were willing to buy a 20hp car
Interesting side note, the cheapest car available in the USA seems to be a Nissan Note at 88hp, it also is one of the weakest on the USA market based on my 10minutes of intense googling.
My own car, one of the most popular in Europe weighs in at 86hp and it's the 3rd weakest in its range and genre. The SEAT Mii which is probably the cheapest car in Europe comes in at 59hp.
Different priorities.
But my point is that Americans are often genuinely confused at how I could possibly drive such a "weak" car. They are even more confused when I tell them I regularly drive that car at 170km/h :-)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_average_fuel_economy
By the time they roll this out, Trump will have abolished both CAFE and global warming and we'll all be dancing happily in the street.
when Ford has ditched all its cars that people will actually want to buy when gas is $5 a gallon.
Americans are often confused why Europeans drive small fuel efficient cars. Well I just filled up for $7.80US / gallon. So you can imagine I'm quite happy that my 10 year older beater car gets 45mpg.
You're missing the point: The media shitstorm and calls of bloody murder worked.
Maybe next time everyone should just shut up and Apple can be happy they've won over the public while people with bricked expensive toys can suffer in silence.
Also if you think that Slashdot outrage is limited to Apple and Microsoft then maybe you should actually do something radical ... like read Slashdot without your observation bias filter running.
Not a single person who reads Slashdot. The world outside Slashdot. The people who just use their computers rather than change settings on them. The target market that pretty much everyone on a nerd related forum seems to think just doesn't exist.
Yeah likely a coding error in the subroutine that scans for the magical genuine bit.
... so all the screaming of bloody murder over Apple doing this deliberately to hurt people who use 3rd party spares was completely unwarranted.
Or maybe a company backed off after the outrage of their actions and this screaming of bloody murder caused them to release a version of software that didn't screw over consumers who daredeth to not contribute to the Cook retirement fund.
Rather than calling it "unwarranted" a far more accurate term would be "effective".
Is that like the "geniuses" at the "genius bar"?
The results will be similar.
Similar to what? Relevant texts translated, and the world turning on? Have you read Bullokar's Expositor? I haven't and have no inclination to do so either. There does exist a field of people who do however study this and write in a modern style their analysis on it. If something is translatable it can also be translated. No great loss. You say this as if the Diwan Lughat Al Turk is some lost unreadable script.
By the way comparing something in 1074 CE to this is utterly stupid. Kazakh has been written in Cyrillic script for an astonishing total of 89 years! This change won't represent any great historical loss to the Kazakhs even if for some reason the world does forget how to read a Cyrillic script.
otherwise why would that businessman bother with the change at all?
Yes why would a business risk being progressive hip cool, why would they explore new things rather than sticking with something old? How many times has CocaCola changed their logo? Did Bush force them to do it last time?
They have competitors
Competitors who support your ability to repair yourself? Hate to say it, but no they don't.
Don't confuse the silence of others to align with your interests.